Posted on 02/12/2018 1:48:28 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When President Trump took office more than a year ago, many feared that his administration would create a mass deportation force to round up millions of immigrants who are in the country illegally.
That hasn’t happened. But the reality has still been sobering.
The Washington Post reported on Monday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 37,734 undocumented “noncriminal” immigrants in the 2017 fiscal year, more than double the amount in 2016. This category of people includes those facing charges and those with no criminal records at all.
ICE also arrested 105,736 immigrants who had been convicted of crimes, a small uptick from 2016. The overall number of arrests was up 40 percent from the previous year, but still well below previous highs; in 2013, at the peak of its enforcement, the Obama administration deported a record high 434,015 people. Obama shifted priorities after that year, when it became clear that Congress would not pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill, and the deportation numbers plunged.
The leap in arrests last year can almost certainly be traced back to a distinct shift in priorities laid out by the Trump administration shortly after the president came into office. Weeks after his inauguration, the Department of Homeland Security issued new guidelines that allowed ICE to adopt a more aggressive posture than it had in the latter years of the Obama administration.
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cry me a river
Looks like they have criminal records now.
Excellent!
...a distinct shift in priorities laid out by the Trump administration ...
Apparently the author fails to understand what “illegal” means.
Arrests of criminal aliens without criminal records on the rise? Sounds to me like a case of a lack of ‘documentation’. Words matter.
Let’s pretend that undocumented entry into the country is not against the law.
And the problem is...?
So “undocumented” is not criminal ?
So what? They are all criminals. That's what "Illegal Alien" means!
Conversely, "undocumented 'noncriminal' immigrants" has no meaning.
What part of U.S. Federal immigration law do these a_holes not understand?
"Undocumented" == "Criminal" by definition...
They are criminals. They entered our country illegally. Liberals can’t seem to understand this important fact.
Illegals are Criminals. Undocumented Immigrants are Illegals because they violate the Immigration Laws of the Destination Country by crossing the Border ILLEGALLY!
DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS Immediately!
I didn’t know Trespassing is not a criminal offense, remind me again where my rich liberal local politicians live, I could use a nice place to crash....
So the next time they get picked up, they have a criminal record! Brilliant! /h
Stop leftist abuse of the English language!
These people aren’t “Undcumented” - at least most of them aren’t.
For the most part they are well documented.
And all of their documentation verifies that they are foreigners who are here illegally.
Illegally - as in “not legal”, as in “breaking the law”, as in “committing a criminal act”.
They gave themselves a criminal record once they set foot in this country illegally, or stayed beyond their legal time limit.
They have a criminal record, it’s just undocumented.
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