The total for last week's deportation sweep was more than
600, affecting a least 11 states. Immigration officials claim that the arrests
were "routine," but President Trump’s recent
tweet gives a different picture. "The crackdown on illegal criminals
is merely the keeping of my campaign promise,” he writes. “Gang members, drug
dealers & others are being removed!” Meanwhile, analysis of Trump's January
25 executive order on deportation shows that his "illegal criminals"
and "bad hombres" could include as many as 8 million undocumented
immigrants, more than three quarters of the unauthorized population.--TPOI editor.
Immigration Agents Arrest 600 People Across U.S. in One
Week
By Liz Robbins and Caitlin Dickerson, New York Times
February 12, 2017
Federal immigration officials arrested more than 600 people
across at least 11 states last week, detaining 40 people in the New York City
area, law enforcement officials said on Sunday.
It remained unclear whether the actions by Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agents were part of continuing operations to round up
illegal immigrants with criminal convictions or a ramping-up of deportations by
the Trump administration.[...]
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The administration's new policies expand who is eligible
for deportation, and an Arizona mother who has lived in the country for 21
years may be its first example.
By J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic
February 10, 2017
The deportation of Guadalupe García de Rayos in Phoenix,
Arizona, may be giving the undocumented population in the U.S. its first sense
of what the next four years will feel like. Rayos is a 35-year-old mother of
two who has lived in the U.S. for 21 years. In 2008, local deputies caught her
using a fake social security number after they raided her work, and since then
she has been required by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to show up
at regular interviews. Every year she’s talked to an agent, then been released
back to her family in the U.S. But Wednesday Rayos was arrested, and on
Thursday agents put her in a van to be deported back to Mexico.
In January, President Trump signed an
executive order that vastly expands who the U.S. considers a deportation
priority. The order
received little immediate media attention at the time of signing, likely
because of the many other controversial orders the president released
simultaneously. The order is full of vague language, and interpreting it has
left a lot of questions as to what’s in store for the country’s 11 million
undocumented immigrants. [...]
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