Posted on 02/23/2025 11:32:10 AM PST by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is directing immigration agents to track down hundreds of thousands of migrant children who entered the United States without their parents, expanding the president's mass deportation effort, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo outlines an unprecedented push to target migrant children who crossed the border illegally as unaccompanied minors. It lays out four phases of implementation, beginning with a planning phase on January 27, though it did not provide a start date for enforcement operations.
More than 600,000 immigrant children have crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without a parent or legal guardian since 2019, according to government data, as the number of migrants caught crossing illegally reached record levels.
Tens of thousands have been ordered deported over the same time frame, including more than 31,000 for missing court hearings, immigration court data show.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and ICE did not respond to a request for comment about the memo and the Trump administration's plans...
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5h ago These past two years I've prepared and filed taxes for many of these migrants who've been recently granted Temporary Protected Status or asylum by Biden’s administration. These women or families have 3 or 4 kids. Earn measly and are getting back refunds of $12,000 to $18,000 they DID NOT PAY, mainly refundable tax credits.,( EITC and ACTC).
Form 8867 requires that I ask for proof their dependents lived with them. Do you what they typically bring me? A form 1095B showing they ALL had state funded Medicaid or their foodstamp-TANF recertification docs .Meanwhile I struggle pay $2500 per month for MY families health insurance. How is this fair for struggling Middle class Americans who are forced to fund these HUGE welfare and tax credits they themselves don't get to claim? Make it make Sense liberals.
Biden has fast-tracked MILLIONS of asylum cases so much that the immigration courts are jammed packed and back logged up to five years and now Trump can't remove them as long as their immigration cases are "in process "
It’s sickening
American women aren’t having children so the elites are importing an underclass paid for by the rest of society.
Very.
I’m not so sure that Trump shouldn’t declare a national emergency and bypass the immigration courts. This whole situation is beyond absurd.
The tone of the article is the apposite of reality. Mean orange man deports poor immigrant kids.
The reality is Trump is taking the kids away from pedos, traffickers and slavers and reuniting families. Only dems stand in the way.
Surprise postings on the net with kids for rent to take to welfare office yet.
My thoughts exactly. What exactly is an unaccompanied minor doing in the states, and I mean that literally. I sincerely doubt they were brought here with the idea it was better for them to come to the US and become wards for the state. Perhaps some are coming to try and connect with relatives but I have a feeling this order targets unprotected minors being exploited.
The Cartels make more on human trafficking than drugs. So this should have an effect on them.
Nothing that comes from Yahoo “news” is worth reading IMHO.
I support a 1 year freeze on ALL immigration. Maybe longer.
Then just read the comment I posted
It’s reflex I guess. I see Yahoo and l think trash because it pretty much always is. Your post is exceptional
Deported to whom? How do you know where home is?
Exactly
Any of the children up to 13 or so are probably called kids.
Those kids can tell where they are from. They will likely
have a better chance of being returned to their families in
their home country, if they can’t be found here.
This is an ugly mess. We aren’t responsible for it. The
Biden administration left a massive problem for us to clean
up on Isle 6.
A__ H_les!
“I support a 1 year freeze on ALL immigration. Maybe longer.”
I would happily go along with that, definitely trying to get ILLEGAL immigration as close to zero as possible and reducing LEGAL immigration to only those highly skilled, educated, and trained needed here. I am tired of companies bringing third world bodies here just to drive down wages and, in the process, putting American citizens out of work.
American women are having children. Maybe not fast enough for you.
Needed? Needed to undercut wages of our kids who graduate college? You mean more H-1b visas? NO THANKS BUCKO.
That applies to work requiring college and white collar jobs too.
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