Immigrant community on high alert

[struggle4progress]

By Janell Ross, Aaron C. Davis and Joel Achenbach February 11 at 7:07 PM

Fear and panic have gripped America’s immigrant community as reports circulate that federal agents have become newly aggressive under President Trump, who campaigned for office with a vow to create a “deportation force.”

Federal officials insist they have not made fundamental changes in enforcement actions, and they deny stopping people randomly at checkpoints or conducting “sweeps” of locations where undocumented immigrants are common.

But anxiety among immigrants spiked last week after the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency conducted a series of enforcement actions in large metropolitan areas, detaining hundreds of people in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta and other cities ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/immigrant-community-on-high-alert-fearing-trumps-deportation-force/2017/02/11/e5c30d06-f06f-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?utm_term=.3f5f1f30dc70

[Lanius]

1. Cracking down on all those illegals who put Hillary over Donald in the popular vote

because undocumented immigrants vote in such high numbers when American citizens don't. lol

[Tanuki]

2. The for -profit private prison industry is thrilled with this bonanza.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/charlotteobserver.relaymedia.com/amp/news/business/national-business/article131968984.html?client=ms-android-att-us

...."In an earnings call this week, CoreCivic President/CEO Damon Hininger identified the possible opportunity to grow its detention business with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

CoreCivic's statement further indicates that private prison firms think they could profit from a Trump presidency, who has already issued executive orders aimed at detaining and deporting immigrants who are in the country illegally.

Trump is offering a starkly different outlook for the industry than President Barack Obama, whose administration aimed to wind down some private prison use.

......The day after Trump's election, CoreCivic saw its shares on the New York Stock Exchange climb 43 percent. Shares of another private prison firm, Geo Group, also increased 21 percent."......

[underpants]

4. Simply horrific

That's all I can say

[Adrahil]

3. Just train them to listen for the jack boots.... NT

[Lucinda]

5. Out of all the stupidity they have subjected us to, this makes me physically ill.

All the fear, pain, and chaos they are causing.... May it return to Trump and his cronies many times over.

[etherealtruth]

6. This is deeply disturbing (as are most things tRump and his horde does)

[Lucinda]

9. I can only read a little about it each day. My health sucks and I can handle everything else

so far, but this just kills me.

[Tanuki]

8. The lack of empathy and any sense of compassion for the human misery he is causing

is beyond belief. This man's mother and aunt were immigrants, and so were two of his wives. You would think this alone might make him stop to think about it.

[Lucinda]

10. I really don't think can relate to compassion or empathy

I think he may have learned to fake it with his family, but I have seen nothing that leads me to think he feels it.

If I wasn't so angry, I might feel sorry for his shortcomings. Maybe I can some day, but not this day.

[etherealtruth]

7. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: WHAT TO DO IF IMMIGRATION AGENTS (ICE) ARE AT YOUR DOOR

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-if-immigration-agents-ice-are-your-door


I have been sharing this every place I can.

Additionally: donate to the ACLU if you can ... if every one of us donated $5 (or $1) we can make a huge impact. (i do realize that many of us have been donating to the ACLU, but it is never bad to remind people that it is more important than it has ever been)

[TrekLuver]

11. Yes...I believe knowledge and information will spread like wildfire throughout the community.

Backlog the courts!