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It Begins: Illegal Immigrants are Being Rounded Up and Deported by Trump Administration, as Promised
Independent Journal Review ^ | 2/11/17 | Mike Miller

Posted on 02/11/2017 5:06:04 PM PST by markomalley

Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged to take action on a host of issues, as all candidates tend to do when running for election. Now that he's president, Trump is actually following through.

One of those pledges was a promise to enforce existing U.S. immigration laws, including the deportation of those who entered the country illegally.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Trump “pressed ahead with his immigration crackdown” this week, “launching deportation raids across the U.S.”

The Independent was even more dramatic:

“Panic” and “terror” is said to be running through immigrant communities in the U.S. following raids carried out across at least six states as part of Donald Trump’s pledge to crack down on illegal immigrants.

The Daily Beast reported that Trump's “deportation force” conducted an “enforcement surge” in multiple cities around the country:

Over the last five days, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents conducted what they call an “enforcement surge” in the Los Angeles area, arresting more than 160 undocumented immigrants.

Immigrants’ rights groups and lawyers told The Daily Beast that ICE also increased its enforcement activities—including, in some cases, in apartment buildings—in a number of cities around the country, including Atlanta, Phoenix, Charlotte, and Austin.

The Independent quoted Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Gillian Christensen, who said the “raids” conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), were part of “routine” immigration enforcement actions:

“We’re talking about people who are threats to public safety or a threat to the integrity of the immigration system.”

But Cristina Jimenez, executive director of United We Dream, has a different take:

“This is clearly the first wave of attacks under the Trump administration, and we know this isn’t going to be the only one."

Sarah Owings, an immigration attorney in Atlanta, sounded a similar alarm:

“The muscle to do this kind of stuff is here — it’s just that the leash has been taken off. They’re out and they’re hunting. They’re picking up and rounding up anyone they can get."

Listening to the critics one would think that America is a police state, with a Gestapo-like force rounding up panicked and terrorized innocents in the middle of the night, rather than a country attempting to enforce its immigration laws — not only for the protection of its indigenous citizens, but for its legal immigrants as well.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: fakenews; winning
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To: UCANSEE2

Nope, it means high school kids can start doing it again ... better money than slinging frys.


41 posted on 02/11/2017 6:51:12 PM PST by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat; Fresh Wind

I think FRESHWIND was only using the term GESTAPO because that is the word the MSM is using.

All he was saying was if you are an illegal, don’t want to get arrested, then go back to your own country.


42 posted on 02/11/2017 6:51:15 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: tx_eggman
Nope, it means high school kids can start doing it again

Do you know any high school kids who know what a lawnmower is ?

43 posted on 02/11/2017 6:54:47 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

I wonder if Bezos is employing thousands of criminal invaders?

It’s rumored he likes to employ H1B cheap imported labor.


44 posted on 02/11/2017 6:56:37 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: umgud
Oh you’re right about that and guess what? Most fraudulent votes are for dems.

Most ? Has anyone hear read or heard of a fraudulent vote being found that was FOR a Republican Candidate ?

I'm sure, if there were, the MSM would have had it as headline news.

45 posted on 02/11/2017 6:57:19 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: VRWCarea51

I heard that HOOTERS was offering to hire 10,000 Muslim women.

Don’t know how that ‘dress code’ thing will work out for them.


46 posted on 02/11/2017 6:59:50 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: markomalley
This is clearly the first wave of attacks under the Trump administration, and we know this isn’t going to be the only one.

GOOD!

They’re picking up and rounding up anyone they can get.

GOOD! (again)

47 posted on 02/11/2017 7:01:42 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: VRWCarea51
It’s rumored he likes to employ H1B cheap imported labor.

Do you think it's just a coincidence that the Corporations, IT Tech outfits, Silicon Valley guys who had meetings with the DNC/Obama Staff/MSM in a plan to destroy Trump all have large staffs of H1B labor ?

48 posted on 02/11/2017 7:03:04 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: markomalley
"“Panic” and “terror” is said to be running through immigrant communities in the U.S. following raids carried out across at least six states as part of Donald Trump’s pledge to crack down on illegal immigrants."

Raids are being carried out with a ferocity reminiscent of "Jenjis Khan".

______________Jean-Francois Heinz-Kerry.

49 posted on 02/11/2017 7:22:40 PM PST by rfp1234 (DinosorosExtinction)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

I am a Mexican posting from Mexico, and very personally impacted, and emotionally charged, as we have tried DOZENS of decent honest ways to get friends who only wanted to VISIT the USA, turned down, after spending $120 USD for a visit to the Consulate office. Meanwhile, those who flood the borders and cross deserts are perceived as HEROS and should get some kind of diplomatic immunity. THIS is not right! And.... to the Snowflakes. Mexico really has had a LOT of improvement within it’s borders, nice roads, communications, jobs are much easier to find. They will find a much improved standard of living, and shouldn’t feel bad at all to be sent back to their country of origin. PLEASE factor in your reasoning logic process that the Gov’t of Mexico will loose 61 billion dollars of revenue it has been getting, and if the DRUG trade is cut off, this will be a major impact. People don’t want THIS change, but it does need to happen.


50 posted on 02/11/2017 7:25:27 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: doragsda
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51 posted on 02/11/2017 7:29:15 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: markomalley

“This is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let’s not argue about ‘oo deported ‘oo...”


52 posted on 02/11/2017 7:35:51 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: UCANSEE2

LOL! Yes, isn’t that going to be a drag?


53 posted on 02/11/2017 7:49:51 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: jsanders2001
Now if we can have open or concealed carry

We have both, here in Texas. Took some years to push through the legislature, but we made it.

Next step for us is constitutional carry, to eliminate the need for any government issued license.

54 posted on 02/11/2017 8:19:44 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: dartuser
...the other 40 million will self deport.

Only if you take away their jobs and welfare benefits.

In fact, enforcing the law in those two areas will be far more effective than raids. Tens of millions will leave overnight, if they can't work or collect welfare.

Starve 'em out!

55 posted on 02/11/2017 8:26:54 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
We are all going to be inconvenienced over the next months and years as many illegals go ‘back into the shadows’ before being deported.

Small price to pay for saving our country, especially when compared to the price earlier generations paid.

Tis but a flesh wound.

I'm a natural born American citizen going back at least ten generations in this country. I'm also the owner of a small construction business that has been decimated by the presence of illegals in the trades these last twenty years.

I dedicated my life to my craft, and used to make professional wages for the skilled work I do. Over the last ten years or so, my wife and I have had to slash our retail prices nearly in half to stay competitive with the illegals. We can't collect welfare bennies on the flip side like the illegals do, so we effectively make less than what they take home each month.

As the pool of illegal labor dries up, the costs for residential improvements is likely to return to normal. I just hope the broad American public understands why, and thinks it through, as you have done.

56 posted on 02/11/2017 8:41:55 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: markomalley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbegyK4WoKc&feature=youtube

With smiles by you know who.


57 posted on 02/11/2017 8:47:01 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: bereanrabbi
There is a leftist judge somewhere, in Soros’ pocket, about to render a halt to Trump’s round ups.

No can do. The Supreme Court just ruled a few years back, that immigration enforcement is the sole province of the federal government.

Sadly for the hand wringing left, the President is in charge of every federal agency concerned with enforcing our immigration laws.

58 posted on 02/11/2017 8:48:28 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Do you know any high school kids who know what a lawnmower is?

All of my four kids are expert with lawnmowers, weed whackers, and other gardening implements.

59 posted on 02/11/2017 8:56:11 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: rovenstinez
I am a Mexican posting from Mexico...

And I see you've been a Freeper since 2001, which makes you an honored veteran of this site.

You really ought to fly your home country's flag on your profile page. Be proud.

60 posted on 02/11/2017 9:02:47 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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