Posted on 06/22/2025 1:25:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ICE is vastly expanding its enforcement powers by deputizing local police officers. Many of those picked up during traffic stops have no violent criminal record.
Chelsea White and her husband were driving home from cleaning office buildings one May evening when they happened upon a Tennessee Highway Patrol checkpoint. It was a situation the couple feared — and had taken precautions to avoid.
White rolled down the driver’s side window on the Ford Fusion with their company’s logo. She drove because her husband, Hilario Martínez García, 46, is undocumented and cannot obtain a license in Tennessee.
One of the officers looked at Martínez, she recalled, and instructed them to pull into a nearby parking lot and step out of the car. Agents in black vests began patting them down and reaching into their pockets. They let White, 31, go when they saw her driver’s license. But her husband had no proof of U.S. citizenship.
The officers escorted him away.
“That was the last time I saw him,” she said.
As the Trump administration aims to ramp up the number of immigrants arrested across the United States each day, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is dramatically expanding its partnerships with police agencies, effectively deputizing local police officers as immigration agents. Some departments have made hundreds of arrests, many of them during routine traffic stops.
The consequences for those arrested have been swift. Some have been deported back to their home countries. At least four immigrants stopped for traffic violations were sent to a notorious mega prison in El Salvador, according to records obtained by The Washington Post. And while some were people with criminal records, others included a teenager on his way to volleyball practice, a young father picking up baby formula and construction workers on their way to jobsites. Martínez had no...
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They are here illegally. "No one is above the law," as our radical Left-wing extremists betters are wont to say.
How hard is it if one is married to a US citizen to become legal? I mean if the marriage is legit and not a sham. Just curious.
This helps explain why NY Democrats what to ban traffic stops
A powerful tool in the Communist Agitators Division Of America: the routine Washington Compost Disinformational Narrative.
“...no violent criminal record...”
Notice how the Washington CompPost keeps moving the goal post. They will tell you that it’s OK for illegal aliens (i.e. democrat voters) to have criminal records, as long as none are “violent”.
Get them OUT, all of them. And then kick out the anchor babies. /spit
But a DL is not proof of citizenship, either. That statement is unsettling.
One of the officers looked at Martínez, she recalled, and instructed them to pull into a nearby parking lot and step out of the car. Agents in black vests began patting them down and reaching into their pockets. They let White, 31, go when they saw her driver’s license. But her husband had no proof of U.S. citizenship.,
It's not proof of citizenship, but rather proof of legal presence, which can be demonstrated by showing a Visa, green card, or other evidence of lawful permanent residence. I know that, you know that, the Washington Post knows that, but they edit their journalism to accomplish their ideological goals. Ach-patooey!
No habla.
wife was H1, we married, she did the process, US Citizen. She was upset on the test she missed one answer, who was the Supreme Court Justice, she said it was open the chief justice had just died, the proctor said, no Reinquest is the answer. He was dead.
“How hard is it if one is married to a US citizen to become legal?”
You jump the border, marry a citizen and then after all these years of sucking off the taxpayer you sign a piece of paper and you’re home free? No.
President Trump needs to send ICE to every school in the USA....Kindergarten to College... Educators top down and bottom up hide illegals in every school system... live bodies literally means MAGA dollars... It does not matter how ‘red’ your state is ... education systems have been corrupted top down and bottom up...
Come August show up at every school in the USA ... public and private ... make sure those sheep traffickers under ‘religious’ mantles are checked first!!!
Exactly. The schools. Please hire me to help with that. Come on Trump staff, you have to have seen my posts offering to help.
I have asked myself this many times.
I’m a far right wing crazy man, but this reeks of violating the Constitution. They had no probable cause or suspicions to ask them to step out of the car or check the citizenship status.
Agreed but this bit about her never seeing him again raises my Spockian eyebrow a bit about this whole story.
all the stuff they put sheriff Joe through for his traffic stops some years back.
He at least cared about doing what he had authority to do, even though it cost him much.
‘Volleyball practice’, ‘baby formula’...ye gads.
It depends on the status of the non-citizen spouse. If they came to the US on certain visas, you apply for the Green Card. After that, apply for citizenship. If the non-citizen spouse came here illegally, had their visa expire or of the visa they entered under isn’t convertible, things are difficult to impossible.
Mrs. Dutch Boy came here on a K1 fiancee visa. We had 90 days to get married or she needed to exit the US. A coworker got married overseas first then tried to bring his new wife into the US but couldn’t without a different visa. His process seemed more complicated than mine.
I love the new definition: “no VIOLENT criminal record”
A criminal record is a criminal record and entering and remaining in the US illegally IS a crime.
8 U.S.C. § 1325 is a U.S. federal law that addresses improper entry by aliens into the United States. It covers various actions related to unlawful entry, including entering at the wrong time or place, eluding inspection, and using false information to gain entry. Penalties for violating this law can include fines and imprisonment, with harsher penalties for repeat offenses.
Key aspects of 8 U.S.C. § 1325:
Improper Entry:
This includes entering or attempting to enter the U.S. at a time or place not designated by immigration officials.
Evasion of Inspection:
It is a violation to evade examination or inspection by immigration officers.
False Statements:
Willfully making false or misleading statements or concealing material facts to gain entry is prohibited.
Marriage Fraud:
Knowingly entering into a marriage for the purpose of evading immigration laws is also covered.
Entrepreneurship Fraud:
Establishing a commercial enterprise with the intent to circumvent immigration laws is another offense under this section.
Penalties:
Violations can lead to fines under Title 18 of the U.S. Code and imprisonment for up to six months for a first offense. Subsequent offenses can result in fines and imprisonment for up to two years.
Tell it to that county... They do NOT need you to approve of a routine traffic stop ... There was NO problem until the ILLEGALS were exposed...
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