Posted on 04/16/2017 5:47:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Immigration arrests rose 32.6 percent in the first weeks of the Trump administration, with newly empowered federal agents intensifying their pursuit of not just undocumented immigrants with criminal records, but also thousands of illegal immigrants who have been otherwise law-abiding.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 21,362 immigrants, mostly convicted criminals, from January through mid-March, compared with 16,104 during the same period last year, according to statistics requested by The Washington Post.
Arrests of immigrants with no criminal records more than doubled to 5,441, the clearest sign yet that President Trump has ditched his predecessor's protective stance toward most of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States....
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This is SHOCKING! Unacceptable! Something must be done!
These numbers are FAR too low! Help ICE...tip line 1-866-DHS 2 ICE.
Ehhhhh... if they’re here illegally, then they’ve already broken the law, yes?
......winning!
It’s a start.
The problem is not so much the criminal arrest rate, but what happens to them after - e.g. catch and release. Furthermore +32%, who are then held, suggest a much increased rate of new detainments.
Sessions warns of ‘Trump era’ of immigration enforcement
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3543295/posts
No criminal records huh?
They are ALL criminals..
The illegals are running around saying Trump is f*cked as they are working, taking jobs from US citizens who are out of work especially in the construction and landscape trades.
So criminals without records are being arrested too?
Good!
Illegals have been stealing money off my family’s table for almost the entire twenty years we’ve been in business, and it’s only gotten worse, year by year.
Since Trump was inaugurated, we’ve seen our closing ratio steadily improve, which I can only attribute to fewer illegals competing for our jobs.
Illegals have pushed Americans out of the construction trades for so long, we're finding it difficult to find any Americans under the age of 50 who've ever swung a hammer, or know how to read a measuring tape.
The writer can’t say “illegal” alien because it would destroy his narrative.
“Otherwise law abiding?” If someone is here illegally, they’re already breaking the law. But I guess law breaking is no big deal to fags, ragheads, and liberals.
Fixed it....
It would be interesting to see number comparison to Bush rather than Obama.
Winning!!! A few hundred thousand per month could make a dent in the 15-20 Million illegals who have squatted in our country since Pres. Reagan’s disastrous immigration bill.
this is nowhere near enough 22k in about 2 months so 132k in a year. Thats pittance
A word that this writer refuses to use because it destroys his narrative "legal" good - "illegal" bad!
"No criminal record" is also another distortion: in the country illegally and working with stolen records (against the law) and probably taking some form of government payment (also against the law), driving either with stolen ID to get license or no license at all, and lastly, paying no income taxes!
That’s a good start, but far too low. We need those extra ICE agents.We also need enough press that they self0deport more quickly.
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