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Trump wants mass deportations. A ride-along with immigration officers shows some of the challenges
Los Angeles Times ^ | December 25, 2024 1:30 PM PT | Rebecca Santana

Posted on 12/28/2024 2:45:14 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

NEW YORK — The immigration officers sat in their vehicles before dawn near a two-story building. A New York subway line rumbled overhead. After about two hours, an officer’s voice crackled over the radio.

“I think that’s Tango,” he said, using a term for a target. “Gray hoodie. Backpack. Walking quickly.”

The officers surrounded and handcuffed a 23-year-old man from Ecuador who had been convicted of sexually assaulting a minor.

Kenneth Genalo, head of Enforcement and Removal Operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York, said a popular misconception is that officers can sweep into a community and pick up a wide swath of people who are in the United States illegally and send them to their home countries.

“It’s called targeted enforcement,” Genalo said. “We don’t grab people and then take them to JFK and put them on a plane.”

With Donald Trump returning to the White House, there is intense interest in how the Republican will carry out his immigration agenda, including a campaign pledge of mass deportations. His priorities could run into the realities faced by agents focused on enforcement and removals, including the unit in New York that offered the Associated Press a glimpse into its operations: The number of people on its lists to target already eclipses the number of officers available to do the work.

The Biden administration had narrowed deportation priorities to those who present public safety threats or recently crossed the border. Trump’s incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan, says officials in the new administration also will prioritize those who pose a risk, such as criminals, before moving on to immigrants whom courts have ordered removed from the U.S.

But Homan also has signaled that enforcement could be wider: “If you’re in the country illegally, you got a problem,” he said recently...

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: epluribusrino; latimes; latimessedition; rebeccasantana

1 posted on 12/28/2024 2:45:14 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hopefully the deportations will start on day one, no exceptions whatsoever.


2 posted on 12/28/2024 3:02:50 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just shake down the whole apartment complex he to goes to. There will be many more there. Word will spread and they will self deport...


3 posted on 12/28/2024 3:04:04 PM PST by Openurmind
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Biden administration had narrowed deportation priorities to those who present public safety threats or recently crossed the border.

There is no evidence to support that statement. The Biden administration prioritized processing asylum claims everything enforcement was shut down.

4 posted on 12/28/2024 3:06:09 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: Openurmind

Exactly.


5 posted on 12/28/2024 3:13:01 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ALL illegals OUT!
Regardless of origin, “ Color”, language, educaton, religion, or any other metric.
Illegal HAS to mean GONE!


6 posted on 12/28/2024 3:17:06 PM PST by Ex gun maker. (Free thinking is now a radical concept, I will not be assimilated by PC or EV group-think!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sounds like it’ll be easier than I thought.


7 posted on 12/28/2024 3:26:41 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, if the LA Times says it’s too hard to do, I guess we’ll just have to give up on the idea. But then again, if the LA Times said the sun sets in the west, I’d go and check.


8 posted on 12/28/2024 3:30:13 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: Ex gun maker.

My thoughts exactly.


9 posted on 12/28/2024 3:45:25 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Challenges? What challenges?

Publicly deport the first few planeloads to Afghanistan, Ukraine, Haiti, etc. and watch the rest self-deport. It can be like a reverse lottery - spin the wheel and find out where you're getting deported to. People can place their bets online.

We have no obligation to return these invaders to their last suspected country.

10 posted on 12/28/2024 4:02:29 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

bump


11 posted on 12/28/2024 4:52:51 PM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My thinking is that if he gets at least the worst of the bunch deported that in itself will be a victory, The gangs and criminals of all sorts must be gone.


12 posted on 12/28/2024 4:55:46 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: reasonisfaith

No it won’t, it will be harder than most think.


13 posted on 12/28/2024 4:56:44 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Now the leftist media decides to actually investigate the world of illegal immigration? They’re nothing but partisan hacks doing the bidding of their DNC overlords.


14 posted on 12/28/2024 5:25:27 PM PST by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Will there be any temporary jobs (ice, cbp, etc) for us citizens?

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’
Rawhide


15 posted on 12/28/2024 5:33:30 PM PST by vmpolesov
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This would all be taken care of if people were required to be US Citizens to vote, fly or work.


16 posted on 12/28/2024 5:35:55 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Now that you say that, I believe it will be easier than I thought in my first post.


17 posted on 12/28/2024 5:48:19 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Keep in mind, this article is propaganda. The agenda is to fool people into thinking mass deportation can’t happen.

But the methods by which it will take place have not really been spoken, at all yet.


18 posted on 12/28/2024 5:50:28 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s more and more normal for mainstream media to try to make the public feel for those guilty of heinous crimes.. The shock should be that they were found guilty and not immediately deported.

Guilty of rapping a 14 year old, wife shocked he was picked up... Smh


19 posted on 12/28/2024 7:48:07 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just shove them over the border into Mexico....the same way Mexico shoved them over the border to us

Let the Mexican government take it from there....as they SHOULD have done when these illegals came across THEIR southern border to begin with!! 😠


20 posted on 12/29/2024 2:10:57 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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