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Mass deportation is coming: Trump’s Homeland Security Department lays out game plan to expel large numbers of immigrants

by Simon Mlloy at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/21/mass-deportation-is-coming-trumps-dhs-lays-out-game-plan-to-expel-large-numbers-of-immigrants/

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Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is coming. One of the first things Trump did as president was to sign a series of executive orders on immigration policy, and while the Muslim ban and the border wall got most of the attention, his order on immigration law enforcement will have the biggest impact on immigrants already living in the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security just released a series of memos laying out how it plans to implement the Trump administration’s aggressive strategy for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Despite the president’s insistence that “criminals” will be the focus of his deportation policy, both his executive order and the Homeland Security memoranda make clear that pretty much any undocumented immigrant detained by authorities will be subject to removal from the country. The Department of Homeland Security states that undocumented immigrants who have “committed acts which constitute a chargeable criminal offense” will be prioritized. As The New York Times wrote in January, this is an expansive designation that encompasses “anyone the authorities believe has broken any type of law — regardless of whether that person has been charged with a crime.”

The department’s guidance also states that undocumented immigrants who “pose a risk to public safety or national security” in the judgment of an immigration officer should be prioritized for removal. That nebulous phrasing puts immense power in the hands of individual immigration enforcement agents to determine who is kicked out of the country.

Above all, the memos indicate that the policy of the Trump administration will be to remove as many undocumented immigrants as it can in the shortest amount of time allowable. The criteria for expedited removal has been expanded so that any undocumented immigrant who can’t prove he or she has been in the country for more than two years can be deported without being able to make a case before a judge. Under the new guidelines, undocumented immigrants who crossed the southern border and are waiting to appear before an immigration judge can now be pre-emptively deported to Mexico, where they will hypothetically have access to “a functional, interoperable video teleconference system” to complete their deportation proceedings.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Yep, these people hate brown people and love to do this, they love to destroy

families.

They want to punish real Americans.

[msongs]

2. one might think the 19% of latino vote he got would be unhappy, but many are probably not...

I lived in a 90% latino area for many years and quite a few of the american citizens of mexican descent were unhappy with the undocumented people of mexican descent and would be glad to see those undocumented people scram

[suffragette]

3. Thought crimes. So, if they think you committed anything they might think of as breaking

the law, they will deport?

That's Carte Blanche to deport anyone they want.

[KingCharlemagne]

4. AKA "Ethnic cleansing" - nt

[Volaris]

5. Bannons gonna be one crabby MF'er when he realizes he's the one who has to go cut the South Lawn

Cause you just KNOW Trump aint gonna do that shit.

[suffragette]

6. Exactly so. Just as hateful and shameful as every time it has been done here in the past.