Deportations stopped for 12 immigrants targeted in raids

Since 2014, the government has been deporting Central Americans at a higher rate, averaging about 14 flights a week, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a prepared statement Monday.

“With the Supreme Court poised to take up the case, the administration’s argument about focusing on deportation priorities rings more true if they are really focusing on their priorities”, Rosenblum said, noting that the recently arrived families were “a named priority”.

He added that those targeted for removal have gone through due-process legal proceedings and said that the effort will help discourage Central American families from sending their children on risky journeys to try to enter the United States illegally.

He didn’t open it. Instead, he hid with his sister, her three children and two other friends inside a bedroom, ignoring the banging until the agents left about an hour later.

A federal immigration official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person is not authorized to speak on the issue, said agents searched for a small number of immigrants with final deportation orders in New England but could not find them.

A surge of children and families from Central America came to the United States in 2014, spilling into bus stations and traveling across the country after they were released from immigration detention.

“The concerns of the advocacy groups ring a little bit hollow”, she said, “because the individuals who have been targeted for removal in this particular action are people who have had the chance to make their case for asylum or some form of legal status before an immigration judge”. “The courts have acted on these cases fairly quickly”, he says, “so that we can make a decision on them right away, as opposed to [letting] them stay here, gather equities, and make it even harder for them to return to their home country”. Sanchez said the only way to solve this issue is to pass comprehensive immigration reform. “I’ve encouraged our immigration enforcement personnel to engage in a mission more like law enforcement”.

As her dad stood weeping, the agents took Hernandez and her six- and nine-year-old sons into custody and drove them first to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office and then to a detention center in South Texas. They are among dozens of congregations nationwide mobilizing to either to open their doors to Central Americans or offer their support, he said. And we have one of them on the line with us.

“If it was November right now, this would be a disaster for the Democratic Party”, Ms. Tramonte said.

As drug violence has surged, the number of asylum requests from Mexican and Central American immigrants has increased dramatically.

The Obama administration’s enforcement effort has come under fire from immigration activists who claim the effort is unfair and targets vulnerable Central Americans fleeing their home counties.

In response, the administration worked with the governments of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador to deter immigrants from coming to the United States, and the numbers “declined dramatically”, Johnson said.

“At my direction, additional enforcement operations such as these will continue to occur as appropriate”, he said in a statement.

“I’m here to express our extreme disappointment at the recent announcement regarding raids of families who have entered the United States in the recent year”, said NIJC’s Claudia Valenzuela.

“This population shouldn’t be thrown under the bus in the name of acting tough”, said Dr. Allen Keller, who runs a program for survivors of torture and teaches at New York University School of Medicine.

Attorney Kathryn Shepherd is working with women and children at a detention center in Dilley, Texas.

“I think about how happy I was when he was first elected, and here we are seven years later”, said Sarang Sekhavat, federal policy director for the MA immigrant coalition.