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As Raids Failed to Materialize, Many Immigrants Still Felt Fearful
WNYC ^ | 7/14/2019 | Mirela Iverac and Beth Fertig

Posted on 07/15/2019 8:06:33 AM PDT by RightGeek

The city braced for deportation raids this weekend that didn’t come to pass, but legal groups and city officials fanned out across the five boroughs to assuage fears and inform immigrants of their rights.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were planning to arrest families who recently arrived, missed their court dates, and were ordered deported. But fear has spread among many immigrants. At Saint Joan of Arc Church on Stratford Avenue in the Bronx, around 60 people filed into the basement for know-your-rights workshops. Alejandra, who didn’t want to provide her last name, said she came to the U.S. 12 years ago from Mexico and doesn’t have legal status. She said she feels afraid.

“We stay at home,” she said in Spanish. “We can’t go out.”

She said she rarely leaves her house now, because she worries what would happen to her two U.S. citizen daughters if she got deported. Hilario Galicia Montes, a volunteer at the church, said he wasn’t afraid, after spending 21 years in the country and regularly paying taxes. But he said many of his friends are scared.

“They don’t want to go out,” he said. “They don’t want to go to work.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: deport; feint; tactics; trumpdhs; trumpillegals
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Get the hell out!


1 posted on 07/15/2019 8:06:33 AM PDT by RightGeek
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To: RightGeek
As Raids Failed to Materialize, Many Immigrants Still Felt Fearful

Criminals are afraid of getting caught. Film at 11.

2 posted on 07/15/2019 8:10:05 AM PDT by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: RightGeek

Cities wasting resources ,how long can they keep it up ,LOL


3 posted on 07/15/2019 8:10:54 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RightGeek
she worries what would happen to her two U.S. citizen daughters if she got deported.

Take them with you? duh

4 posted on 07/15/2019 8:11:44 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: RightGeek

If you are in the country legally, you have nothing to fear.

If are in the country illegally, you aren’t an immigrant.


5 posted on 07/15/2019 8:11:52 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: RightGeek

What Trump needs to do is make clear that enforcement will focus on areas that are not sanctuary cities. Encourage the migrants to migrate to the sanctuary cities. As long as they stay there they won’t be bothered ..: at least for the time being. And pull ICE out of those cities. Dump the migrants in those cities but don’t disclose that’s what you’re doing.


6 posted on 07/15/2019 8:11:57 AM PDT by Brilliant
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“We stay at home,” she said in Spanish.

Uh, no. Home is a few hundred miles south across the border.

Funny how these folks who are supposed to be living in the shadows and afraid to go outside always seem to end up in headlines.

7 posted on 07/15/2019 8:12:55 AM PDT by bgill
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LOL! As some of my Liberal relatives like to point out - "American" does not mean just the USA. They say there is a North America, South America, and Central America - so people from coutries there are also "Americans."

Fine! So, to take my relatives' position - yes, the are Americans...but not citizens of the USA! Go Home!!!!

8 posted on 07/15/2019 8:14:08 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: RightGeek

“She said she rarely leaves her house now, because she worries what would happen to her two U.S. citizen daughters if she got deported.”

Don’t worry, we’ll send them with you because DemocRat say it would be cruel to split families up.


9 posted on 07/15/2019 8:14:20 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Where does it say in the Constitution anyone is entitled to the property another has labored for?)
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She said she rarely leaves her house now, because she worries what would happen to her two U.S. citizen daughters if she got deported.

Guess what, Alejandra!

They are hiring in Mexico and you can take your daughters with you.

Seriously, the Trump economy has not only produced better paying blue collar jobs in America but south of the border as well.

The company for whom I work for has openings in all three plants in Mexico-- Tijuana, Ciudad Juarez and Monterrey. There are even sign-on bonuses for the right skillsets.

10 posted on 07/15/2019 8:14:29 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: RightGeek

Nothing is being done on immigration legal or illegal except to let more Indians in to further colonize us. The DACA parasites were supposed to go back but NOPE, didn’t happen. Jared Kushner is coming up with an immigration package to ensure that we never have another Republican president (like that’s done us any good) and white people never have a voice in anything.


11 posted on 07/15/2019 8:15:11 AM PDT by dljordan
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She said she feels afraid. “We stay at home,” she said in Spanish. “We can’t go out.”

So it was a triple instead of a home run. Oh well.

12 posted on 07/15/2019 8:16:26 AM PDT by relictele
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Trump wins again. He made democrats come out, openly disobeying the laws of the USA, and showing the world how much they hate this country.

dems have shown illegals how to break the law. dems are now in full ownership of the problems caused by illegal immigration.

Trump, the genius!


13 posted on 07/15/2019 8:16:31 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: RightGeek

We have to ramp up enforcement ten fold.

Target employers.

Cut off benefits.

Make it so difficult to be an illegal alien that they go home.

If you see people speaking Spanish, ask if they have a green card, if they say no, tell them ICE is looking for them.


14 posted on 07/15/2019 8:16:52 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: bgill

Assuming there is a larger strategy here, putting the frighteners on the illegals may redound to Trump’s benefit in keeping them from voting even with the Dems attempting to stampede them to the polls.


15 posted on 07/15/2019 8:17:28 AM PDT by relictele
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To: RightGeek

A lot of them will probably decide to head home rather than continually going on and off of Red Alert.

This Trump is a friggin’ genius.


16 posted on 07/15/2019 8:18:44 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: RightGeek

America will never return millions of illegals since the communists Democrats still have huge power to keep the illegal voters. Democrats have nearly destroyed America and may never find a solid law and order Country again. This is like foreign Countries have been destroyed. They know that President Trump will get the second term but the communists will return four years after.


17 posted on 07/15/2019 8:19:04 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: PistolPaknMama

They are also Mexican citizens, so, no problem.
Mexico extends citizenship to the children of Mexican nationals born anywhere in the world.
Even George P. Bush.


18 posted on 07/15/2019 8:20:08 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: RightGeek

Trump PSYOPS creating havoc inside their OODA Loop.

MAGA Red Meat for 2020 produced by the very people want Trump gone.


19 posted on 07/15/2019 8:20:20 AM PDT by TADSLOS (You know why you can enjoy a day at the Zoo? Because walls work.)
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To: RightGeek

Excellent!


20 posted on 07/15/2019 8:21:56 AM PDT by Ingtar
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