Immigration Enforcers, Unleashed By Trump, Can Finally Do Our Jobs Again

[still_one]

Agents said they felt constrained under Obama. Now, under Trump, they think they hold the power.

WASHINGTON ― When Donald Trump won the presidency in November, Shawn Moran’s border patrol colleagues high-fived and hugged each other.

“There was a real sense that we were going to be able to do our jobs again,” said Moran, vice president at National Border Patrol Council. “That turned out to be true.”

Border Patrol and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents complained for years that then-President Barack Obama constrained their ability to fulfill their mission. Trump campaigned on a promise that he would unleash them — and vowed to make large-scale deportation of undocumented immigrants a priority. This won Trump the endorsement of Moran’s group, which represents Border Patrol agents, and the National ICE Council, a union that represents ICE officers.

Now, Moran said, the president is keeping his promise. Immigrant rights advocates, who were horrified at a multi-state deportation effort that swept up more than 680 people last week, agreed.

“They feel emboldened and they feel that now they have a president that’s basically is going to give them carte blanche,” Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), a frequent critic of ICE tactics, said in an interview.

The Obama administration, in its last years, considered only serious criminals and recent border-crossers priorities for deportation. During those years, ICE often released non-criminals and individuals who only had committed immigration-related crimes, like driving without a license.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-immigration-border-deportations_us_58a49e7be4b0ab2d2b1b6ed3?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

F**KING RACIST ASSHOLES. Meet the new brown shirts

F**K anyone who voted for this racist, sexist asshole

[pangaia]

1. Just think about it....

They must feel the only way they actually Do their job, that is DO ANYTHING, is to DO SOMETHING.... Nort arresting people, not deporting people is doing NOTHING.
ERGO--- doing SOMETHING is arresting people....threatening people... oh what fun it must be.

When I came back to the US from Toronto a couple weeks ago, the 'border guard' looked at my passport. which probably has 30 or so entry stamps (visas) -- Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Netherlands, Norway, RUSSIA, Finland, Portugal.....
BUT, the only thing she said about it was, "So you have been to..OMAN!"

[DK504]

2. The idea that they didn't have enough freedom to do their jobs is crap.

How are these agencies going to do their jobs if they are stretched so thin they don't have the numbers to investigate real problems we have here. Not the productive workers that add to our country, but the real criminals from the horde of the cartel flunkies that become felons sitting in our jails soaking up our tax dollars.

Some how don't think all the members of MS13 are natural born citizens. I'd love to see those guys shipped out, not the innocent people trying to make a better life here for the future of their children. The idea that strike teams are busting through doors at 3:00 am to catch those dangerous cooks, construction workers and students. Yeah, we really need to cower because they are honest workers.

[Jake Stern]

3. Shit like this is why I'm very ambivalent on law enforcement unions

Ironically the biggest charge right wingers make against teacher's union fits law enforcement unions to a "T": they protect the incompetent and downright malicious.