Trump order drops protection for families of deployed military

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Trump order drops protection for families of deployed military

By Nathan Fletcher

February 24, 2017, 4:15 PM

Imagine you are a member of the United States military deployed on the front lines confronting ISIS or other terrorist threats. Suddenly you get a desperate phone call from home — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested your family and they’re facing deportation. ... Think it can’t happen? Think again. Think Trump.

The Trump administration’s draconian and hastily drafted immigration orders rescind a key protection for military families so that now even military spouses and children can be rounded up and deported. This will weaken our armed forces. It will harm thousands of military families. And it’s wrong.

In 2013, the Department of Homeland Security, at the request of the Defense Department, issue a policy memorandum aimed at preventing the deportation of spouses, parents and children of active-duty service members through a program called “Parole in Place.” ... Put simply, the program allowed immigration authorities to give the immediate family of military service members a temporary reprieve from enforcement actions based on their immigration status. It specifically barred those with criminal convictions from these protections.

This was as much about national security as it was about upholding our commitment to support our troops. The Department of Homeland Security wrote, at the time, that “military preparedness can potentially be adversely affected if active members of the U.S. armed forces … worry about the immigration status of their spouses, parents and children.” We need our service members focused on accomplishing their mission and the safety of each other.
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Fletcher is a U.S. Marines combat veteran, a professor of practice in political science at UC San Diego and a former member of the California Assembly representing the 75th District. Twitter: @nathanfletcher

[democrank]

1. It's mind boggling.

How can some veterans hold up VETERANS FOR TRUMP signs?

[Doreen]

2. I gurantee if this type of thing keeps up

he will have to do a draft or make it law that you have to do so much time in the military. Enrollment will be going down. The only people he will have in the military will be his extreme right deplorables and that will not be enough. He will make getting out very hard and for those who are out but are still in the time zone where they can call you back will be used.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. The Draft will happen.

And understand there already have been people effected by this ban. Have a neighbor who is retired Air Force,and he and his family are scared to death. Understand his spouse is among those who came to the states as a child some fifty years ago. He is Hispanic,born State Side,served a thirty year hitch,and injured in a Industrial Accident a year ago and now Wheel Chair Bound. His Spouse is his dependent care provider. Talk about a pending nightmare.

[Doreen]

4. All I can say is "no shit."

[Wellstone ruled]

5. What the GOP idiots want is a

White Christian Soldier Military,well,good luck with that fallacy.