Donald Trump keeps emphasizing that he's stepping up deportations by focusing on the worst of the worst, the hardened criminals and gang-bangers who need to be kicked out of the nation in order to protect our citizenry from their thuggish, narco-terrorist, rapist ways.
Like Maribel Trujillo, who has been here (illegally) 15 years, is a mother of four (ages 3-14, all born in the US), works hard, supports her husband's health issues — and has been picked up and told she'll be deported next Tuesday.
'She was put into deportation proceedings in 2014, but with no criminal history she was essentially left alone by Ice under the Obama administration and only expected to check in with officials once a month.
But in February the stakes were raised dramatically. In the course of one of those routine check-ins she was ordered to wear a GPS tracking device around her ankle and warned she was a target for deportation.
When her lawyer asked why, an Ice agent grew angry and said to them both: “I don’t know if you are aware, but we have a new president, things are different now.”
On Wednesday she was unexpectedly arrested by Ice officials outside her home and taken to the main immigration detention center in south-west Ohio, Butler County jail. She has been told that her removal is imminent.'
Don't you feel safer, too?
Mother of four to be deported to Mexico in sign of Trump policy shift | US news | The Guardian
Between this and the twitter lawsuit, I find it interesting (morbidly so) that CBP is carrying out Trump's wishes even when he is unable to legally enforce them.
+Kee Hinckley It's an interesting insight into the culture of that department.
Illegal is breaking the law which ever way you look at it, illegal immigrants all should be deported to their country of origin.
+Michael Tighe That's certainly a discussion worth having, but that's not what the President has said he is doing.
'Since entering the White House, he has softened that threat, focusing his efforts on removing only the most serious criminals – murderers, rapists and other violent criminals, gang members and drug dealers. “We’re actually taking people that are criminals – very, very hardened criminals in some cases with a tremendous track record of abuse and problems – and we’re getting them out,” the president said in February.'
If Trump wants to take the position once again that he's having his people boot anyone they come across or know about, then he should be be honest enough to make that his open policy. Touting his actions as being against "the most serious criminals" and then making an explicit effort to deport a mother of four who seems to have been leading an exemplary life is the chickenshit way of governing.
+Dave Hill did Trump change his mind again with regards to illegal aliens? Or is this a one off that is being blown out of proportion by the Media? I'm not sure I'm just asking questions. Is their others in this position that are being deported?
+Monkey Me I'm not aware of any official announcement from the Trump Administration. While Trump had originally posited throwing all undocumented individuals out of the country, since being elected his rhetoric has been that he is only ramping up efforts against hardened criminals, murderers, rapists, drug gangs, etc.
That said, and without broader statistics reported back from ICE, it's difficult to say. However, there have been other reports (e.g., http://www.wbur.org/news/2017/03/30/green-card-ice-arrests-lawrence, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/05/homeland-security-secretary-john-kelly-ice-agents-belong-in-courtrooms.html, http://www.westword.com/news/ice-agents-are-infiltrating-denvers-courts-and-theres-a-video-to-prove-it-8826897) of similar activity, where the goal is simply to arrest anyone they can (and if the targets are non-violent and in an area where they cannot have any weapons, like a courthouse, well that just makes it easier and safer for ICE to do so).
wbur.org – ICE Arrests Green Card Applicants In Lawrence, Signaling Shift In Priorities
+Dave Hill your right, we should help out the Sanctuary cities with their efforts to keep these hardened criminals from being picked up by Ice agents. Let's let them go put into our city's to continue their criminal activities on our people. I can see where it's more important to keep these criminals on our streets where we are forcing our law abiding citizens to give up their guns so these people will have nothing to deter them from comity g crime as they leave the court house, because who cars that they are committing crimes agest our people.
+Monkey Me The math of sanctuary cities is pretty simple. If you arrest people who report crimes or try to be legal, even though they are illegal, you drive them underground and create more crime. And the Feds don't reimburse you for holding people for them. Cops don't do this stuff out of the kindness of their hearts. They're doing it because it works to decrease crime and costs. And they are under no obligation to enforce federal laws.
+Monkey Me Wow. That went from "honest question" to "we have to arrest all those hardened criminal illegal alien types immediately to safeguard our children" pretty fast.
If you'd actually read the articles I linked to, the people involved were not engaged in criminal activities. They were actually both following and supporting the law — and punished for doing so as being low-hanging fruit to be picked up by ICE.
The term "sanctuary city" is wildly over-used anyway. What it essentially means is "we're not going to report in to ICE about anyone we encounter who we think might not be here legally, and if ICE wants us to hold on to a particular person we have in custody they need to get an actual bench warrant for it the way any other law enforcement agency does, rather than just sending us over a form and telling us to keep them prisoner — who may have been acquitted or charges dropped regarding why they were picked up — indefinitely until they can get around to coming by."
That's really about it.
As +Kee Hinckley notes, if you create an environment where people who are here illegally are scared of contacting the authorities about crime, crime will flourish — and the victims won't just be limited to those who are here illegally.
+Dave Hill well you are the one that suggested that it's much safer for the ice agent's to pick them up from state custody. Which way do you want it? And do you want the American people safe from criminal aliens that are picked up by city and state or police?
+Monkey Me 1. I want honesty about policy. If the intent is to pick up and deport illegal aliens anywhere we can find them, then make that clear and let the politics settle matters. If the plan is to focus resources on the worst of the worst (which was already the case) and ICE is simply being lazy about executing it, that's worth discussing to.
2. If we are talking about actual dangerous criminals (leaving aside the actual societal definition of a "dangerous criminal" is "one who's been caught and convicted as a dangerous criminal"), then coordination with ICE makes sense.
If we're talking about ICE hearing that there's someone under arrest (not convicted) that they might be interested in, then they can do what any other law enforcement group does and get a judge to issue a warrant so that they can go pick the person up, rather than sending an administrative note telling the city/county to continue holding the person indefinitely (on their nickel) until ICE gets around to it, both turning the city/county jails into de facto immigrant detention centers (at the city and county's cost), and raising significant 4th Amendment issues.
+Dave Hill Well said.
+Dave Hill I agree with you on making it clear on the policy. If you are going to round up all the illegal don't beat around the bush and tell everyone your policy and be open about it.