Trumps freeze on hiring federal workers may thwart his plans for deportations

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Trump’s freeze on hiring federal workers may thwart his plans for deportations

Mandate may have potentially unintended consequences for one of Trump’s most aggressive policy reform platforms: tough immigration enforcement
The order includes exemptions for government hires tasked with ‘national security or public safety’, meaning Trump can still add thousands of new positions at Border Patrol.
The order includes exemptions for government hires tasked with ‘national security or public safety’, meaning Trump can still add thousands of new positions at Border Patrol. Photograph: Gregory Bull/AP

Oliver Laughland in New York

Tuesday 24 January 2017 11.48 EST
Last modified on Tuesday 24 January 2017 14.53 EST


On his “first working day” in office, Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum to freeze hiring of non-military federal workers in a move applauded by small government conservatives and lambasted by public sector workers.

The order mandates that “no vacant positions existing at noon on January 22, 2017 may be filled and no new positions may be created” until the president implements a longer-term plan to cut the federal government workforce by attrition.

Although the measure is only temporary, it may have potentially unintended consequences for one of Trump’s most aggressive policy reform platforms: tough immigration enforcement and ramped up deportations.

The order includes exemptions for any government hires tasked with “national security or public safety responsibilities”, meaning Trump can still go ahead with pledges to add thousands of new positions with the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But it is decidedly unclear how the freeze will affect the ultimate arbiter in hundreds of thousands of removal cases: the federal immigration courts.

These 58 courts are at a breaking point. With a backlog of over 530,000 cases, the highest number on record, the average case now takes close to two years to be processed and in some jurisdictions cases can languish in the pile for six years or more.

For many of the thousands awaiting an outcome on asylum claims, advocates warn, the uncertainty and prolonged limbo leads to serious psychological harm. Parties on both sides of the debate on immigration reform accept the situation is untenable.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/24/trump-freeze-hiring-federal-workers-deportation-immigration

[C_U_L8R]

1. Doh !

We have an idiot President.
He's so weak.

[tanyev]

2. Our only hope may be their incompetence.

[treestar]

3. he and his minions think it is a matter of rounding up people

they don't realize there is a right to a hearing in immigration court.

[haele]

4. They'll ignore rights and challenge citizens to make them follow the law.

To the Birchers, the Teahadists, and Putin, the Constitution is what they want it to be. There are no checks or balences in their world.
Eric Prince and his merry coalition of Fellow Travelers, Oafkeepers, and racist True Believers are perfectly willing to shoot any liberal or non-white non-xtian on sight, no matter the gender or age.
For Profit just makes it more justified to such people.

Haele