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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsICE agents set 'trap' for immigrants seeking legal residency
"...Its our job to locate and arrest them."
REBEKAH ENTRALGO AUG 14, 2018, 12:04 PM
Two federal immigration agencies worked together in a coordinated effort to set deportation traps for unsuspecting immigrants seeking legal status, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) alleged in a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen this week.
According to the Boston Globe, the two agencies arranged meetings for the undocumented immigrants at government offices, where they were subsequently arrested, and in some cases deported.
According to e-mails obtained by the Globe between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and employees of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), ICE asked government officials to space out the meetings so that the public wouldnt catch on and draw negative media interests.
As far as scheduling goes, I would prefer not to do them all at one time as it is [not] only a strain on our ability to transport and process several arrests at once, but it also has the potential to be a trigger for negative media interests, as we have seen in the past, Andrew Graham, an ICE officer, wrote to a USCIS employee in one email from October.
https://thinkprogress.org/ice-agents-trap-immigrants-seeking-legal-residency-984970dcbc36/
stevengreater
(4 posts)Don't get me wrong, I love the ACLU, but a little odd they're fighting ICE. Wonder what the thinking involved here is.
Lochloosa
(16,064 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,848 posts)What is odd about ACLU fighting against illegal tactics?
stevengreater
(4 posts)I like them, and I like they're defending people. But I think this is the first time I've ever heard of them being involved.
Yonnie3
(17,441 posts)You must not follow the news very much.
stevengreater
(4 posts)Yonnie3
(17,441 posts)moriah
(8,311 posts)Enjoy your stay...
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)0rganism
(23,954 posts)..."I would prefer to have a more efficient transport for them, like a railway car. No need to use passenger resources, just cattle cars on freight lines will work fine. Also, I'd like some kind of wrought-iron signage outside the building, something about the virtues of work leading to freedom. Do you think we can make that happen?"
uponit7771
(90,339 posts)... to do some inhumane shit.