Posted on 01/10/2017 10:52:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
United States President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly taken the first step toward confirming one of the worst fears of undocumented Caribbean and other immigrants who have taken advantage of a programme that grants them temporary stay in the US.
According to New York’s Vice News, a US Department of Homeland Security memo states that the president-elect’s team is “poking around the agency” for information about recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA.
President Barack Obama started the programme through an executive action in 2012 as a way for undocumented immigrants who meet certain requirements to achieve two-year status in the US to work or attend college.
According to Vice News, while Trump pledged to “immediately terminate” DACA on his first day in the Oval Office, immigration groups worried he would take his hard-line policy a step further and use the programme to locate undocumented immigrants and pursue deportations.
In fact, it said some immigration groups have started advising their clients not to apply for DACA protection.
During a December 5 meeting with Homeland Security officials, Vice News said Trump’s transition team inquired if any employees had altered DACA records out of concern for immigrants’ civil liberties, according to the internal memo.
The team also requested copies of every immigration executive order and directive since 2009, when Obama first took office.
“While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), an arm of the Department of Homeland Security that oversees the DACA programme, already shares information with Citizenship and Immigrant Services when cases involve certain criminal offences, giving ICE full access to pursue deportations would reverse the original intent of the programme,” Vice News said.
In a private analysis, the Saint Paul, Minnesota-based Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) found that no president over the last 50 years had used a programme granting relief to undocumented immigrants to later target the same group. The ILRC is a US national nonprofit that works with immigrants, community organisations, legal professionals, law enforcement, and policymakers to build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people.
Last month California Congresswoman Judy Chu sent a letter, along with 109 other members of the US Congress, urging President Obama to protect information in the database.
In response, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said for decades the agency has used personal information only for immigration enforcement in limited circumstances of criminality or national security.
“We believe these representations made by the US Government, upon which DACA applicants most assuredly relied, must continue to be honoured,” he wrote.
On January 20, when Trump is sworn in as the next US president, retired Marine General John Kelly will replace Johnson at the helm of Homeland Security.
“Kelly’s experience with immigration is thin, and organisations unsure of what he’ll prioritise are worried about the future of undocumented immigrants in the US,”
Vice News said.
DACA offers applicants the opportunity to legally work, apply for a social security number, get a driver’s licence, and travel to and from the US.
Only those who entered the US before the age of 16 and had not turned 31 before Obama created the policy can apply for the two-year status with US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Trump has pledged to “immediately terminate” DACA, in addition to promising to cancel, on his first day in the White House, “every unconstitutional executive action” made by Obama,
Vice News said.
It said whether Trump will make good on his promise, and exactly how, remains unclear, especially for the 741,546 approved for the programme, with another 750,000 to apply.
Between October and December of last year, 45,576 DACA applications were accepted, 16,336 of them initial and 29,240 renewal, according to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
ILRC and the National Immigration Law Centre are advising clients that the risks of applying for DACA, especially for the first time, may outweigh the benefits since the election, Vice News said.
It said two of the largest public universities in the country, City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of California-Berkeley, are “openly advising undocumented students not to apply for the programme”.
“If they’re not already in removal proceedings and if they’ve never been part of an immigration enforcement activity, now moving into the Trump-era might not be the time to submit an application that you’re here without documentation,” said Sally Kinoshita, ILRC’s deputy director.
Hey, hey...
Hey, ho...
All the illegals gotta go...
Hahaha! Used to love them.
They have records now?
Dear General Kelly,
Prior to directing such action as is necessary at the invaders how about rounding up the groups that facilitate the invaders entry into our Nation?
There has to be a number of penalties they can be assessed for their egregious criminal and in many cases traitorous behavior.
Prison, fines, shaved heads, Minnesota...
These are the documented undocumented illegals.
Do their documents document their undocumented undocumentation?
Trump’s team aims to document whether their documents document their undocumented undocumentation.
Huh. Deferred action. One might imagine that if action were taken, after being deferred, it would, you know, be exactly what it says it is.
Oh, right, in the fantasy world people live in, deferred action means no action.
I trust Trump’s triumphant trouncing of the hopey changey twits teach those liberal lunatics that lunacy will no longer be tolerated. Legality is either legal or we lose the last line of defense against the despicable. Nuff said.
Hey, I thought liberal twits were all about irony?
What did they think was going to happen after two years?
Bail out from college and go live as an illegal under an assumed name, collecting welfare benefits? Well, they were hoping for welfare benefits without the assumed name.
After two years, don't renew their DACA-CACA and send them home, unless they have passed the citizenship test.
Oh yeah, reinstate the Old citizenship test, in English.
<><> our tax dollars import them.
<><> our tax dollars to church organizations to “settle” them.
<><> our tax dollars to fly them here and get them into our communities.
<><> our tax dollars to ensconce them on the gravy train
<><> our tax dollars to train the useless buggers to take our jobs
<><> our tax dollars to house and feed the criminals in prison
hat tip gnuthere
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REFERENCE---A hidden video exposed the US govt agency-USCIC, a division of DHS---lets them in using fake passports to make them eligible for Temporary Protected Status, which protects Syrian immigrants, of illegal or legal status, from deportation. The status is available to Syrians who have been in the U.S. since Oct. 1, 2016. and the date to register ends in a few weeks.
(RELATED: Obama Admin Rushes To Resettle Refugees During Last Days In Office)
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/10/exclusive-immigration-official-okays-syrian-immigrants-with- fake-passports-video/#ixzz4VScO9ZgS
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Good. Deport a few, and they will spread the word in their home countries that the US is not the promised land of milk and honey that the coyotes promise when they round them up to ship to the US. It could help with the human trafficking (i.e. slave trade) that has become such a problem during Obama's term.
I have to take training on human trafficking every year or so. At freeway rest areas, there are now signs posted to inform the public how to recognize evidence of human trafficking and report it. Yet the executive office under Obama encourages and rewards human trafficking in the guise of enabling illegal "immigration." I'm looking forward to Trump bringing back some sanity in enforcing immigration law--and putting a brake on human trafficking.
The fact that this guy can accurately cite, and do so with no sense of the irony involved, is one of the big reasons Trump was elected.
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