US wants tally of Haitians immigrants' crimes
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) The Trump administration is taking the unusual step of hunting for evidence of crimes committed by Haitian immigrants as it decides whether to allow them to continue participating in a humanitarian program that has shielded tens of thousands from deportation since an earthquake destroyed much of their country.
The inquiries into the communitys criminal history were made in internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services emails obtained by The Associated Press. They show the agencys newly appointed policy chief also wanted to know how many of the roughly 50,000 Haitians enrolled in the Temporary Protected Status program were taking advantage of public benefits, which they are not eligible to receive.
The emails dont make clear if Haitian misdeeds will be used to determine whether they can remain in the United States. The program is intended to help people from places beset by war or disasters and, normally, the decision to extend it depends on whether conditions in the immigrants home country have improved enough for them to return. But emails suggest Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, who will make the decision, is looking at other criteria.
I do want to alert you ... the secretary is going to be sending a request to us to be more responsive, Kathy Nuebel Kovarik, the USCIS head of policy and strategy, wrote on April 27. Addressing the inability of agency employees to gather the requested information about wrongdoing, she said: I know some of it is not captured, but well have to figure out a way to squeeze more data out of our systems.
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cstanleytech
(26,286 posts)as they are using the same tactic of telling the public that (x) people are the cause for all the problems in the country.
OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)-- Rednecks with guns
-- Rednecks with guns who are hyped up on meth
-- Bankers
-- Manhattan real estate developers
-- Preachers who have abused children in their church
-- Stock brokers
-- Mortgage brokers
NCjack
(10,279 posts)iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)safeinOhio
(32,674 posts)Cuban gangs too.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)any type of shooting where Americans have been shot in this country. We must collect and aggregate data on shootings and the type of people who do it. For national security reasons...
Who's doing the shooting?
iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)we'd want to know who is doing it and how to stop it.
But if Americans kill us, then we're not allowed to even collect data to measure the problem.
JI7
(89,247 posts)Grins
(7,217 posts)Can I request that the study also include ...Cubans?
They're hitting on the Haitians, Mexicans, El Salvadorians, Nicaraguans, etc., but somehow always seem to manage to miss the Cubans, the 1.2 MILLION of Cubans living in Florida.
And if they are looking for "evidence of crimes committed by (Cuban) immigrants" they could start with Marco Rubio's ex-con brother-in-law and the drug gang he ran that offed people by chopping them up with a chainsaw and burning the remains.
Or Jeb Bush''s pal, Miguel Recarey, who orchestrated the largest HMO Medicare fraud in U.S. history through overcharges, false invoicing, and outright embezzlement.
TexasTowelie
(112,144 posts)the Cubanadian, Ted Cruz. He definitely needs to be deported.