Longtime Garden Grove resident with deportation orders and no criminal record detained by ICE

SANTA ANA — Gurmukh Singh, a Garden Grove resident and family man with no criminal record, entered a federal building with his wife, two daughters and a pro bono attorney Monday morning to check in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as required for individuals with final deportation orders who have been released under supervision.

The taxi driver had been taken into ICE custody once before, in 2013, when he interviewed for legal permanent resident status unaware of his outstanding deportation order. Immigrants rights groups and politicians successfully advocated for his release, but two weeks ago, a judge dismissed Singh’s appeal to reopen his asylum case.

AP: That’s going to be the policy of your administration, to allow the dreamers to stay?

TRUMP: Yes. That’s our policy
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Candidate Trump correctly called the DACA program illegal and unconstitutional.
President Trump is continuing it.
And that statement sounds like a warm-up to amnesty, at least for the DACA recipients.

“We have an adult in the WH.” Good news and true.

I like to think that the brave soldiers in Border Patrol are feeling the freedom to do their job with gusto: to defend our country.

I totally understand your thinking. To be sure, I would prefer for the pledges of Candidate Trump to be enacted by President Trump at a faster pace.

That said, President Trump - much like Candidate Trump - acts like a businessman. That is, he develops a plan first. Then, he executes a strategic approach to enacting the plan, which (in Trump's case) is a mix of truths, misdirection, evasion, and elbows under the net, all designed to NOT surrender his position.

To date, the trajectory of this administration is broadly in line with campaign promises. I would go further, and state that what may seem like an amnesty warm-up is being revealed as a trap, to lull illegal aliens into complacency and then BAM!

Indeed, Jefferson said it best: Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. We should, of course, keep the administration's feet to the fire. But I am not yet ready to burn my MAGA hat: I'm willing to sustain temporal set-backs as long as we win the game of long ball.

What about his claim for asylum? Was he a persecuted minority in India?

This article’s writer sucks. No details about why he “claimed” asylum. That is a key element in getting a “stay” form deportation.

There are a lot of minority political and religious groups who are persecuted in India, by the govt, by other religious groups, by the communist terrorists, tribal terrorists, etc.

We need REAL REPORTING, not TEARJERK REPORTING>

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