US agents round up Central Americans slated for deportation

“Immigration agents must show an order signed by a judge to be able to enter your house”, the advisory said.

Several churches have announced that they will offer sanctuary to immigrants, mainly Central Americans, who face deportation. Raids in Georgia, North Carolina and Texas accounted for the majority of those now in custody, though Johnson characterized them as part of “concerted, nationwide enforcement operations”.

The probability of raids was first reported on December 23 by the Washington Post. High profile ICE operations such as the 2007 New Bedford raid galvanized anger among immigration advocates.

“She has given a criticism of the latest round of deportations, but it is comparatively light compared to O’Malley and Sanders, so she could see more demonstrations at her rallies from immigrant rights organizations who believe that she is the worst choice among the three candidates for the Democratic nomination, especially with her ties to the Obama administration, as the title “deporter in chief” will be thrown around more”, Mr. Campbell said.

“This should come as no surprise”, Johnson said of the roundup.

The operation targeted adults and children caught crossing the border after May 1, 2014, who have been told to leave the country by an immigration court and who Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Monday would not be eligible to stay in the U.S.by seeking asylum or through other means.

Many of them seek asylum in the United States.

“They are looking for protection, and at the end, they’re getting this deportation”, Nicholls said.

ICE’s weekend actions come in response to the wave of Central American migrants, many fleeing violence in their home countries, who started arriving at the southern US border in the spring of 2014.

“Since when have American values had anything to do with raiding homes to pick up women and young children and further traumatizing them?” said AILA advocacy director Greg Chen. “Individuals who constitute enforcement priorities, including families and unaccompanied minors, will be removed”.

However, while more than 6,000 children and their parents had applied to the program, only about 90 applicants had been interviewed by last September.

“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has marched confidently into the new year, raking in an additional $88.3 million and topping the box office for a third week, according to studio estimates Sunday. Katie Shepherd, managing attorney for the CARA project working at the Dilley detention center outside of San Antonio, said federal agents also violated the families’ rights by denying them access to counsel and arresting them without showing them warrants.

Immigration agents over the weekend conducted the first raids targeting the deportation of families who flocked across the United States’ southern border over the past two years, a senior government official said Monday.

The majority of the families will be taken to family residential centers before they fly back to their home countries. The attorneys filed requests to stop the deportations for five out of a half-dozen cases they reviewed.

Torres told the crowd, “Clinton needs to demonstrate that she’s different from Donald Trump and say that we welcome these refugees”.

Abraham Espinosa of FIEL, a Houston-based immigrant rights group, said there was “a little bit of a panic” among migrants when news of the planned round-up emerged shortly before Christmas.

“They are a cruel reminder of a discredited policy”, he said in the statement.

“I was easy to find because of the electronic ankle monitor on my leg”, says Urias, from a phone inside the building.

But reports of unsafe conditions have pressured the administration to release families, and in August, a federal judge ruled that Homeland Security had violated a decree to treat minors in custody humanely and give them a prompt hearing, and ordered the centers to begin releasing families and unaccompanied children.

“Many of them either did not put forward any kind of case, or put forward a case that was not legally sufficient because they didn’t know how to make the case themselves and they were ordered deported”, she states.