On September 7 NBC News reported that Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) was planning to carry out “Operation Mega,” a
nationwide series of raids in the middle of the month targeting 8,400
immigrants. Soon afterwards, ICE announced it was cancelling the raids in
response to major hurricanes hitting the U.S.—although some speculate that the
real reason was the fact that the plan had been leaked. Was this a cancellation
or a postponement? Why was ICE planning the escalation? How do mass raids fit
in with Trump’s claim that DACA recipients don’t need to worry? And are we
ready to resist?—TPOI editor
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| Milwaukee Protest, February 2017. Photo: The Progressive |
Homeland
Security Cancels Massive Roundups of Undocumented Immigrants
By Julia
Ainsley and Andrew Blankstein, NBC News
September 7, 2017
WASHINGTON —
President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security had planned nationwide
raids to target 8,400 undocumented immigrants later this month, according to
three law enforcement officials and an internal document that described the
plan as "the largest operation of its kind in the history of ICE," an
acronym for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But after NBC
News reported the plans late Thursday, the agency issued a statement saying it
had cancelled nationwide enforcement actions due to Hurricane Irma and the
damage caused by Hurricane Harvey.[…]
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Austin
Immigrant Advocates Demand ICE Release Details on Planned 'Mega Raid'
Reports leaked
earlier the immigration enforcement agency plans to root out up to 10,000
undocumented residents; advocates wants specifics.
By Tony Cantu, Downtown
Austin Patch
September 8,
2017
AUSTIN, TX —
Immigrant advocates in Austin are demanding that U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) officials disclose details of the agency's planned
"mega-raid" designed to ensnare members of undocumented communities
nationwide for deportation.
On Thursday,
details emerged about the agency's "Operation Mega" initiative
targeting up to 10,000 undocumented immigrants nationwide. Sources suggested
the operation would intentionally target anyone in the country currently
undocumented.
Now, Austin
immigrant advocates are calling on ICE to release documents revealing the scope
of the operation.[…]
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Trump
Plans Massive Raids on Immigrant Communities Starting Mid-September
Horrific
Plan to Target 6,000 - 10,000 for Mass Deportation is Part of Escalating
Attacks on Immigrants
By
Detention Watch Network
September 7, 2017
Washington,
DC — Detention Watch Network (DWN), the National Immigrant Justice Center
(NIJC), National Immigration Law Center, United We Dream (UWD) and the Women’s
Refugee Commission (WRC) condemn Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE)
plan to conduct a nationwide immigration enforcement operation from mid- to
late-September. Multiple sources within and close to ICE have shared
information with advocates about the operation, which ICE is calling “Operation
Mega.” In addition to apprehending
targeted individuals prioritized in the president’s January 25 Executive Order,
ICE agents will apprehend undocumented or otherwise removable individuals
encountered during the operation, per ICE policy under the Trump
administration. These raids are intended to be historic in size, targeting
between 6,000 and 10,000 immigrants.
Operation
Mega is part of a wholesale and escalating attack on all immigrants. In the
wake of the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program on
Tuesday, it is clear that this administration will not exercise restraint in
enacting an anti-immigrant and white supremacist agenda. In fact, earlier this
year, Trump’s top immigration agent declared that “no population is off the
table.”[…]
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the full statement:
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