Team Maps Sweeping Deportations
Toluse Olorunnipa
February 21, 2017, 10:21 AM EST
February 21, 2017, 2:58 PM EST
The Trump administration outlined a sweeping crackdown on undocumented immigrants Tuesday, proclaiming that it would seek to swiftly deport many more people without court hearings and target migrants charged with crimes or thought to be dangerous, not just convicts.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said in a pair of memos describing the plan that, with few exceptions, the U.S. "no longer will exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement." Immigration officers should seek to deport undocumented people who have engaged in fraud or "willful misrepresentation in connection with any official matter before a governmental agency" or have "abused" any government benefit, in addition to criminals, Kelly wrote.
Immigration authorities also could seek to deport people based on their own judgment that the immigrants represent a risk to public safety or national security, he said. He ordered the department to hire 15,000 more border patrol and immigration agents and to begin building a wall on the Mexican border to enact executive orders signed by the president on Jan. 25.
Kelly’s memos don’t cover Trump’s Jan. 27 ban on the entry of foreign travelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations, which was halted by a federal appeals court ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-02-21/trump-team-starts-detailing-immigration-crackdown-plan-in-memos
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Yep -- I look forward to when we have #MAGA by deporting all undocumented immigrants -- with that additional personnel, it should all be accomplished by...2075. Maybe.
