Federal agents conduct sweeping immigration enforcement raids in at least 6 states

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Washington Post

Federal agents conduct sweeping immigration enforcement raids in at least 6 states

By Abigail Hauslohner, Lisa Rein and Sandhya Somashekhar February 10 at 4:04 PM

U.S. immigration authorities launched a series of raids, traffic stops and checkpoints in at least half a dozen states across the country on Thursday and Friday, sweeping up an unknown number of undocumented immigrants, immigration lawyers and advocates said. ... The raids, which appeared to target scores of undocumented immigrants, including those without criminal records, mark the first largescale episode of immigration enforcement inside the United States since President Trump’s Jan. 26 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally.
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Gillian Christensen, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), confirmed that ICE agents this week had raided homes and workplaces in Atlanta, the Los Angeles area and two other cities that she declined to identify, as part of “routine” immigration enforcement actions. ICE does not use the term raids. ... But immigration activists said Friday that they had documented ICE raids of unusual intensity in the last 48 hours in Vista, Pomona and Compton, Calif.; Austin, Dallas, and Pflugerville, Texas; Alexandria and Annandale, Va.; Charlotte and Burlington, N.C.; Plant City, Fla.; the Hudson Valley region of New York; and Wichita, Kan.
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Meanwhile, immigration advocacy and legal aid groups said ICE had declined to give them any information about how many people had been taken into custody. ... Advocates from United We Dream, the Center for Community Change and Make the Road said on a Friday conference call with reporters that they believed hundreds to have been detained, including undocumented immigrants who had no prior criminal record. They said some had been deported immediately.

“We cannot understate the level of panic and terror that is running through many immigrant communities,” said Walter Barrientos of Make the Road in New York City. ... ICE agents had raided homes, and were “not just detaining individuals they are looking for ... but in fact, taking anyone else in the community, or in these homes who does not have immigration status at the moment, or who is not able to prove citizenship,” Barrientos said.

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[orangecrush]

1. just warming up

They will get to the rest of us eventually, probably a lot sooner than expected

[notdarkyet]

2. Trump got frustrated not being able to stop muslims so he set

His sight on immigrants. He is a horrible, horrible person. I might move to Mexico. I love it there. The wall might keep the deplorables out.

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

3. This is his narcissistic vindictiveness for losing the court case on his muslim ban

I fully expect to see the outrage and protests to grow about this, too. I would almost bet that there are some legal residents and green card holders having their residency and green cards rescinded, too. They were doing that that to legal resident and visa holding people coming in from those muslim countries too.

[HoneyBadger]

4. I would move there if I could get ex pat work

I did work in Juarez for years. Cost of living is so much lower that even a poor person's salary takes you far. The border zones like Juarez, TJ, Nuevo Laredo, etc. are where my sorts of jobs are.

It is a lot more fun than living in Canada for sure.

If you are retirement age, a lot go to Baja, either in ex pat communities, or with an RV. You could not believe the percentage of cars down there with US plates and registrations that are years old. Not quite ready for that yet.

[riderinthestorm]

5. !!!

[drm604]

6. How does this work?

Can they just go door to door demanding birth certificates or green cards? Don't they need warrants for specific individuals?

[haele]

10. I think there's going to be a Constitutional challenge to this action.

Some idiot thinks this is real life 24. They do have to have warrants to do a door to door sweep if there isn't someone residing there with a deportation order already in place, and I don't think any Federal judge in his or her right mind would sign a blanket dragnet operation.

This is illegal. Anyone who is willing to ignore the Constitution and established laws that protect everyone's rights just to "get any lawbreaker..." would be willing to throw you in jail to auction off your assets because you were Jaywalking.

I don't care for thugs hiding behind badges. They are the disrespectful assholes treating the law and police as a joke.

Haele

[Ellipsis]

7. ...and taking all their stuff to build that wall.

[KingCharlemagne]

8. ICE are now enemies of the people - nt

[roamer65]

9. It's gonna get hot in the Southwest United States.

...and I don't mean weather.