Posted on 02/24/2017 3:31:48 PM PST by stocksthatgoup
Friend --
Over the past several months, we heard a lot about "mass deportation" and the implementation of a "deportation force" -- but I hoped I'd never live to see the day.
Unfortunately, it's about to become reality.
This week, the Department of Homeland Security issued guidance regarding their immigration enforcement plans, "set[ting] the stage for mass deportations," as CNN characterized it.
Rather than a common-sense focus on those who have committed serious violent crimes, the new administration is taking steps to vastly increase the population of immigrants who will be targeted, detained, and deported.
The new guidance not only prioritizes the deportation of all undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of any crime -- it makes clear that even being charged with a criminal offense, regardless of the opinion of a judge or jury, is now grounds for deportation. That's not how our justice and immigration systems should work.
They're expanding expedited removals and bypassing due process. They're cracking down on vulnerable asylum seekers. They're stripping protections for unaccompanied minors. They're calling for a massive increase in mandatory detentions.
And how will they do all this?
DHS plans to hire 10,000 more ICE agents and 5,000 additional Customs and Border Protections agents; deputize significantly more local law enforcement officers to immigration enforcement; and drastically expand detention capabilities.
It's hard to call that anything other than a "deportation force."
Our national security won't be strengthened by targeting law-abiding undocumented immigrants, and it's difficult to understand why we'd push due process and the proper function of our justice system aside and spend billions in taxpayer dollars on this draconian crackdown.
Millions of people across the country are now forced to live in fear that they or their loved ones could be deported at any time. This is not what America is all about.
Say you'll take a stand.
Add your name Thanks,
Yoli
Yolanda Magallanes Development Director Organizing for Action
I wonder which sewer “Yoli” crawled out of.
Get on with it !
Today I post in Mexico. I get reports from neighbors that say their loved ones are coming home! Reminds me of the hens in the barnyard always ran when the chicken hawk flew over. This FAKE NEWS is scaring the tar out of them. An older lady yesterday told me that THE HAND OF GOD IS WITH DONARLD TRUMP, I DON’T SEE WHAT THE FUSS IS ALL ABOUT, JUST THINK GRANDKIDS ARE GOING TO COME BACK SO THEY CAN MEET THEIR UNCLES AND THEIR GRANDPARENTS, AND SOME OF THE DADS WILL COME HOME AND MEET THEIR TEEN AGE SONS..
Its always funny when liberals pretend they are concerned about the cost of a government program.
Part of Obama’s shadow government.
At least she called them “undocumented” instead of just plain immigrants.
Their big fear is these are rules and laws Obama put in place. He just didn’t enforce them.
I for one am pleased if there is hysteria, fear and unease by these illegals and their families. If someone in the family is illegal and is deported, nothing is stopping other members of the family of going with them. This tear jerking crap of separating families is the families choice since they have the option to go with them if their family is so important to them.
Why should we wait until illegal aliens have committed serious violent crimes before they are removed?
ALL illegal aliens MUST commit multiple crimes DAILY to remain here illegally.
Illegal employment.
Fraudulent documents.
Illegally collecting benefits.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg.
We should not have to wait until they harm or kill Americans before they are removed.
law-abiding undocumented immigrants
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No such thing exists.
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Nuff deportation talk.
Time to jail their employers.
That is the scare we need to get going.
Time for jobsite raids. Arrest the employers, and hold them without bail, and hide them with diesel therapy.
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Wow. Thanks! Great ground report.
Yolanda... where is your emperor Zero? Why are you having to write for him? Has he transcended his own organization, or is he..... detained?
10% of our populace today is illegitimate.
Cry me a river you lily-liver fruitcakes.
We may concentrate on felonious aliens, but that sure doesn’t mean all other illegals get a pass.
Any time the words “Common Sense” come from liberals, it’s anything but that.
At least she called them undocumented instead of just plain immigrants.
She? OFA = Obama. Imagine if Bush had set up an org to backseat drive the kenyan’s occupation of the White House.
I agree.
I watch them and all their kids as soon as school is out disappear to Mexico for the summer. Then they are back when school starts again.
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