Immigration policy results in more ICE raids and arrests

Because since he’s expanded the definition of “criminal alien” to include a wide swath of immigrants, he’s basically given permission for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain anyone, including those without criminal records.

An ICE spokeswoman said agents initially were after two people, both of whom had multiple prior arrests and one of whom had a prior conviction, when they stopped the vehicles on a highway outside Woodburn on February 24. This means that ICE can and will pursue immediate deportation for Vargas.

The Human Rights Watch analysis of the likely impact of these new enforcement policies is based on decades of research into the USA immigration system and the operation of the 1996 laws.

Vargas was brought into the U.S. by her parents from Argentina when she was seven years old.

They said they did not know where her father Daniel, 55, and brother Alan, 26, were being held but believe they have not yet been deported.

AFSC penned a letter to Sheriff Gary Schaffer asking him not to partner with ICE. Why that would prove to be a burden to anyone who wants to live and work in the United States is a mystery.

“We want all Americans to succeed – but that can’t happen in an environment of lawless chaos”.

About a dozen people spoke against the program in the meeting’s public comment portion. “Think about these immigrants as people just like you with the same concerns and the same fears that many of us have”.

“I don’t understand why, you know, she’s paid for this application and mailed out this application and been twice approved before, and every indication is that it would be approved a third time”.

“If they find the person they were looking for, and even if they don’t, they’ll ask other people at the house [for their papers] and they’ll arrest them if they’re undocumented”.

Speakers also included local attorneys Jeff Sutherland and Frank Corrado, as well as business owners and leaders of local advocacy groups.

“By that language he’s going after people who possibly have a speeding citation”, said Walker.

“The corrections officers aren’t going to be stopping anybody on the street”, he said. Four were let go because an immigration judge had previously released them on bond pending removal proceedings, the ICE spokeswoman said.

“All workers in California are protected by labor laws, and the Department of Industrial Relations enforces workplace rights regardless of immigration status”, said Erika Monterroza, a DIR spokeswoman, whose state is home to a large number of undocumented immigrants.

Currently, ICE has 287 (g) agreements with 37 law-enforcement departments, including three in New Jersey: the Monmouth and Salem county sheriff’s offices and the Hudson County Department of Corrections.

“When you come under that program, there are certain rights you give up”. “And now she’s an adult trying to assert her own rights”, Peterson said. “It’s not like there’s killings on the street”. Two-thirds of this population have been in the country for a decade or longer, and have families, jobs, homes, and other ties to the community. She doesn’t see a future for herself in Argentina’. “All those efforts are still in place”, she said.