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This really is a hard article to --that labor unions would support Trumps devastating immigration policies.
The New ICE Age: An Agency Unleashed
https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/02/new-ice-age-agency-unleashed/
May 2, 2018, 9:36am Tina Vasquez
Trump is giving ICE the tools, financial resources, and presidential backing to go after immigrant communities as never before. While John Kelly and Stephen Miller may be the main architects of Trumps nativist anti-immigration policy, they are not its most important and powerful supporters. For that, look to the labor union that represents ICEs agents.
In February, I visited Minerva García, an undocumented immigrant originally from Mexico who has quietly lived and worked in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for almost 20 years. She is the mother of two young children who are U.S. citizens and an older child who is a recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). In April 2017, García went for her regular check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the federal agency charged with enforcing immigration law, as she had been doing for years. Usually its been a routine visit, but this timeher first appointment since Donald Trump was elected presidentshe was told she had 30 days to leave the country and would have to purchase her own bus ticket back to Mexico.
Called silent raids by advocates, this use of regularly scheduled immigration check-ins to threaten with detainment and deportation undocumented immigrants who have deep ties to the United States and no criminal records has become a favorite tactic of ICE under the Trump administration. To avoid deportation, García sought sanctuary in a church in Greensboro, where she stayed for 96 days. She was there when President Trump rescinded DACA, the federal program that offered some undocumented youth work authorization and protection from deportation. Thankfully, her son Eduardo had renewed his DACA just beforehand. At the time, when asked about the prospect of DACA ending for good, Eduardo said he was hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. (A federal judge recently ruled that DACA must be reinstated, after a 90-day delay.)
As for García, she was relieved when a federal judge in Texas ruled that her removal order be vacated, allowing her to leave sanctuary and regain a home life. But she faces a very uncertain future. About a month after leaving sanctuary, García was called into ICEs Charlotte field office again. She feared being detained on the spot; instead, she was fitted with a GPS ankle shackle so that ICE could track her movements. Everything changed, she said, after Trump took officethe tone of ICE agents at the field office was totally different.
All of a sudden, they talked to me rude, said García. Like Im nobody, like Im not a human being. They dont respect [immigrants] and I think they were waiting for a chance to let us know.
She wanted to remind ICE that this is supposed to be a nation of immigrants, she told me. But she had begun to wonder if the agency recruited only people with cold hearts...............................
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President Trump holding a White House roundtable on sanctuary cities with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and ICEs acting director, Thomas Homan, in Washington, D.C., March 20, 2018.
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Trump is giving ICE tools, financial resources & presidential backing to go after immigrant communities as never before. John Kelly and Stephen Miller may be the main architects of Trumps nativist anti-immigration https://rewirenews.link/2KuqmXr
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)All I can physically do is support the Human Rights programs which legally challenge these moves.
They HAVE to be challenged.
If we don't, the only group category that will be safe is the Rich Old Man group.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Like she's a criminal? Our government is truly evil.