New Trump Deportation Rules Allow Far More Expulsions.

[elleng]

Source: nyt

The Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday released a set of documents translating President Trumps executive orders on immigration and border security into policy, bringing a major shift in the way the agency enforces the nations immigration laws.

Under the Obama administration, undocumented immigrants convicted of serious crimes were the priority for removal. Now, immigration agents, customs officers and border patrol agents have been directed to remove anyone convicted of any criminal offense.

That includes people convicted of fraud in any official matter before a governmental agency and people who have abused any program related to receipt of public benefits.

The policy also calls for an expansion of expedited removals, allowing Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to deport more people immediately. Under the Obama administration, expedited removal was used only within 100 miles of the border for people who had been in the country no more than 14 days. Now it will include those who have been in the country for up to two years, and located anywhere in the nation.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/us/politics/dhs-immigration-trump.html?

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MORE: 'The change in enforcement priorities will require a considerable increase in resources. With an estimated 11 million people in the country illegally, the government has long had to set narrower priorities, given the constraints on staffing and money.

In the so-called guidance documents released on Tuesday, the department is directed to begin the process of hiring 10,000 new immigration and customs agents, expanding the number of detention facilities and creating an office within the Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help families of those killed by undocumented immigrants. Mr. Trump had some of those relatives address his rallies in the campaign, and several were present when he signed an executive order on immigration last month at the Department of Homeland Security.'

[Gothmog]

1. These new rules are horrible

[guillaumeb]

2. UNLESS:

those undocumented workers are working for rich white farmers or factory owners who support the GOP.

[groundloop]

3. 45* must have a boogey-man at which to direct hatred and stir up fear

45* doesn't give a shit about making America safer, he's just expressing his own prejudices.

ALSO, what does the goper party have to say about the cost of hiring 10,000 new Storm Troopers? I thought they were all-in for smaller government.

[atreides1]

4. The Republican Jobs Plan

Deport all unauthorized immigrants, creating jobs for Trump supporters! Of course a majority of them will have to move to where those jobs are, and they won't be the high wage positions that they were told about during the campaign!

But, at least they'll have a job!

[lark]

5. Nope, not going to happen.

Those lazy R's won't work that hard. Americans refuse to work in the fields. When GA deported all immigrants, they lost billions of $$ in spoiled veggies because no one here would work that hard for that kind of pay. They just walked off the job. Even when they had convicts ordered to pick, they just wouldn't so the state gave up the effort. Think something very similar happened in AL, but don't know if they used convicts there.

[KingCharlemagne]

6. So much for his "hiring freeze," the fascist piece of shit. - nt

[sinkingfeeling]

7. How do they increase a budget for all that without Congressional approval?

[Solly Mack]

8. Hate and ignorance manifested into "policy".

Voltaire: Certainly any one who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.