Posted on 07/01/2017 9:57:53 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
The Trump administration said Friday it will begin arresting parents and others who hire smugglers to bring children into the U.S., in an effort to break up human-trafficking operations.
The new “surge initiative” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement marks the latest get-tough approach to immigration by the federal government since President Donald Trump took office.
It is also a sharp departure from policies in place under President Barack Obama, during which tens of thousands of young people crossed the border illegally. The children were then placed with sponsors—typically parents, close relatives or family friends—who cared for the minors while their cases moved through the immigration court system.
The government said it plans to arrest the sponsors.
“ICE aims to disrupt and dismantle end-to-end the illicit pathways used by transnational criminal organizations and human-smuggling facilitators,” agency spokeswoman Sarah Rodriguez said. “The sponsors who have placed children directly into harm’s way by entrusting them to violent criminal organizations will be held accountable.”
Immigrant advocacy groups said they were investigating a dozen arrests that may involve sponsors, including the arrest of an unaccompanied child’s brother in Texas, as well as other cases in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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Immigration enforcement was a centerpiece of Mr. Trump’s presidential run, and he has sought to carry through on his campaign promises by cracking down on people in the country illegally. He has vowed to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and go after “sanctuary cities” that enact favorable policies toward immigrants, while emboldening ICE to arrest more people.
Since October 2013, nearly 170,000 unaccompanied minors have been placed with sponsors in all 50 states and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and many are still awaiting their day in court, according to federal data.
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BOOM!!!!
More winning....
[in an effort to break up human-trafficking operations]
There should be investigations on who got those vulnerable children. They were just whisked away...
While blacks will not vote for Trump in mass. They should. In the past few months, the flow of immigrants from the southern boarder has slowed dramatically. Just enforcing the laws with or without a wall has made immigration shrink. And blacks have been hired more than in the past eight years both in real numbers and in percentage of new and total workers. Thats right. Trump is helping black workers more than Obama ever did. The reality is that immigrants hurt blacks most of all. They lowered the wage of unskilled workers and they took unskilled jobs from blacks.
If Trump was wise he would give a speech on this subject in front of a black audience. Its time that blacks realize that their leaders have sold their jobs to the Mexicans. The leaders get Mexican votes. But at a cost of black jobs.
“The reality is that immigrants hurt blacks most of all.”
I agree...President Trump should focus some speech time to explaining in detail what his agenda is doing for real Americans. I wish he would use his Twitter for the same issues instead of fighting with media scum bags. I agree he has to defend himself, but all too often he steps on his own good news.
The past two weeks he has had pretty good news with the SC win, CNN getting caught by Veritas, Russia story flipping over, energy week, ...all this good news was stomped on by his MSNBC tweets. He did the same thing during the election...3 steps forward and two steps back.
Just keep speaking directly with Americans about your agenda, by Twitter or rallies or speeches...the rest of the garbage(MSM) will decompose on it’s own.
The Kenyanesian Usurper was flouting federal law by facilitating the dispersal of illegal aliens to other illegal aliens around the country.
There were many good reasons why the founders insisted on a natural born citizen. Someone who could not possibly be anything other than a US citizen because they were born here of citizen parents. Naturally a US citizen because there was no other possibility.
And Paul Ryan bent over backwards to give Odunga 1.6 BILLION US tax payer’s dollars to “settle” these little bastards in 2016 (or 2015).
Paul Ryan is a huge part of the problem.
Faggot Ryan needs to go.
Until Ryan goes I’m continuing my John Galt of WI cheese. Period!
NBC - it has been shown why that rule is imperative.
Take a gander at Nan from San Fran these days. Her mind is certainly elsewhere. Not on her elected duties. Might be pondering on her skullduggery to see BO’B elected and the fact the guys in white hats ‘are on to her and gaining ground’.
Nancy Pelosi did in fact issue a different eligibility form for Obama to Hawaii than she did to the other 49 states.
Obama policies directly enabled human trafficking. To counter that, signs with phone numbers to call if you should encounter human trafficking were posted in freeway rest areas across the country. Also, people working in the DoD have to take human trafficking awareness training periodically.
Yep, signs and training will reverse human trafficking in a way that actually taking steps to stop it cannot do. /s
Winning! Hahaha. MAGA!
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