Posted on 02/22/2017 4:00:50 PM PST by ColdOne
With immigration courts reaching a record backlog in 2016, Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly ordered Monday that illegal immigrants who have been in the U.S. for less than two years should be allowed to be deported without a court hearing.
Kelly signed two memos Monday that made significant changes to the nation’s immigration policy. They ordered the immediate construction of a border wall, expanded the amount of local police who will enforce immigration law, and put every illegal immigrant — excluding those protected under President Obama’s executive amnesty — at risk of deportation.
Condemnation of the plan by pro-immigration activists and Democratic politicians was swift. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a statement Tuesday, “By targeting those without serious convictions, those who have merely been charged with offenses, or those recent arrivals — including unaccompanied children — who have posed no safety threat to our neighborhoods, the President has chosen the politics of division over our nation’s safety.”
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In the last legislated changes to the immigration adjudication process (1) many administrative judge seats were added, and many new seats were filled with lawyers who had been on the side of advocacy for immigrants before, some had worked as legal advocates for illegal immigrants; and (2) judges were given more leeway with more loopholes and gray language in the rules. It was by law, made easier for a disputable case to get ruled in the “immigrant’s” favor. In short, the system was rigged.
I am of the opinion that the GOP should double the number of immigration judges. This will allow the administration to appoint a whole new set of conservatives to the federal bench and create a pool of future justices that can be drawn from to fill the federal vacancies
I also think splitting up the 9th into at least 2 perhaps 3 courts would be a good idea.
You cant take a teenager that has lived nowhere but the U.S. since elementary school and just drop them off in Mexico or El Salvador or wherever. Nuts to think that is acceptable.
I agree. however, their parents, grandparents cousins, older brothers and sisters, should be disallowed to EVER receive US citizenship. They may come to visit, but must go home, and NO welfare of any kind EVER.
“You cant take a teenager that has lived nowhere but the U.S. since elementary school and just drop them off in Mexico or El Salvador or wherever. Nuts to think that is acceptable.”
If they are 18 years of age they are an adult. Any younger they should be accompanied by a relative. If they have no relative then they should be made wards of the state and deported on their 18th birthday.
Your kittenclaws are sharp enough to cut through all the crap. Correcty, The only bottom line is NO CITIZENSHIP, NO WELFARE, ETC.....FOREVER!!
Some one who is a fancy NY lawyer needs to sit down with DeBlasio & explain to him what a felony is:
Using fake documents of ANY kind to be here in the USA or to work here is a FELONY-—
It is a SEPARATE FELONY for each document they use to be here.
Social Security card-—birth certificate-—papers to get a bank account-—ANYTHING they have used to be here-—
EACH ONE IS A FELONY !!!
I am tired of these so called legal trained idiots refusing to recognize the damage of using these fake documents-—and I also want all those groups & ‘helpers’ who provide any such documents—for free or otherwise—to be caught & jailed.
I remember when groups were busted in So Calif before I left here in 1993. Garages housed illegals & printing presses to create fake documents.
I strongly approve. No illegal should have the right to a court hearing, regardless of how long the crime of illegal residence has been ongoing, but this is a good first step.
The real question is - “What end-state do we want at the end of President Trump’s first term?” I’d like to see an America with no illegals - zero. To get there, we need to deport (or encourage the self-deportation of) at least 3 million illegals per year (close to 10,000 per day). You can’t get there one at a time in court. The answer has to be more efficient:
“Are you a citizen or a legal resident of the United States?”
“No.”
“Bye!”
But but but but BOR O’Reilly told Trump deportations will get sloooowed waaay down in the courts and noway man could Trump do anything about it. LoL.
Sneaking in is a gateway crime.
Is this doable? If so...HAAZAA!!!
Yes and no. The limit of two years seems pointless. We still need to expand the immigration courts to handle those who have been here more than two years. Trump and Kelly should put out the call for any retired conservative judges or even prosecutors to return for a short term stint as immigration judges to eliminate this backlog and run through the “over two years” cases. I want the open borders crowds heads to spin with how fast people are moved through that court process and deported.
Yeah very doable.
***Why is it not acceptable to deport ANY illegal? It seems acceptable for the hard working people of this country to take care of everyone on the planet. It seems acceptable for our sons and daughters to go to God forsaken places and fight to fix everything that’s wrong on the planet. I am way past sick of “sucker Sam” doing everything for everyone except the deserving people of this country.***
My thoughts exactly.
I prefer the explosive RFID chip attached to the carotid artery, triggered by broadcast transmitter if they get too close to the border fence or within 10 miles of any city, town, port, or police vehicle. Or if removal is attempted, of course.
Nonsense. That is exactly what foreigners are doing when they bring their kids here — expect them to survive and even thrive in what is to them a completely strange environment.
It is time for Mexico and El Salvador and China, et al to expend the resources to handle returning expat children and integrate them into their parents’ culture. It would be racist and insulting to assume those other countries are incapable of doing what America has been doing for decades.
Those strict Mexican immigration laws real purpose is to protect the Mexican oligarchy.
In my area, it is actually mostly Chinese and Koreans who have simply overstayed their visas.
The Wall is not going to be built with manual labor, and I wouldn’t trust any of them near heavy machinery. Maybe set them to cleaning up the mountains of trash illegals have scattered in the deserts as they come here. That seems like a task chain gangs could manage.
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