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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump wants to set record number of deportations, vs public safety!
Later in the article, it makes a case that the focus in not been on public safety--takes to long--but on quickly getting up the number of people of deported.
IMHO--> It is all about winning for Trump (getting higher numbers than Obama adm.
Jul 28
Trump administration wants to set record number of deportations, former ICE official says
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-admin-deportation-ice-john-sandweg-d5030a140e63
Their priority is to focus on individuals who can be deported quickly.
WASHINGTON, D.C. As President Donald Trump doubles down on alleged immigrant gang members on Friday in Long Island, New York, there is growing concern among immigrant advocates and experts that more people without criminal records will be detained and deported to fulfill his campaign promise of mass deportation.
John Sandweg, the former Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and former Acting General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security, sees the current administrations detention practices of immigrants without criminal records as a waste of financial and physical resources.
Sandweg, who served under the Obama administration between 2013 and 2014, thinks it doesnt make much sense that federal immigration agents no longer adhere to enforcement policies that prioritized deportations of immigrants with serious offenses, rather than immigrants with U.S.-based family members.
Their priority is to focus on individuals who can be deported quickly.
The reality is that [the ICE agency does] have a priority and its to try and set a record number of deportations, Sandweg said to a small group of reporters at an immigration panel on Friday. To actually do that with the complexity of the immigration enforcement system, you actually do need to implement a priority. And their priority is to focus on individuals who can be deported quickly. In plain English, these are individuals who do not need to see an immigration court judge.
Given the 610,000-case backlog in the immigration court system, its easier to detain and deport immigrants as they annually check in at ICE offices to have their order of supervision with work permit renewed, rather than to wait for immigrants to have their legal statuses sorted out through the judicial process..............................
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Trump wants to set record number of deportations, vs public safety! (Original Post)
riversedge
Jul 2017
OP
Detention practices of immigrants without criminal records is waste of resources...
Thomas Hurt
Jul 2017
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. Detention practices of immigrants without criminal records is waste of resources...
No it isn't. It is money in the pockets of the private prison industry and probably the Trump Campaign, the Trump Org and Sessions.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)2. He wants everything to be instantaneous
so he doesn't have to think about and do some actual work. Just claim a win.