Exclusive: Trump targets illegal immigrants who were given reprieves from deportation by Obama
Source: Reuters
In September 2014, Gilberto Velasquez, a 38-year-old house painter from El Salvador, received life-changing news: The U.S. government had decided to shelve its deportation action against him.
The move was part of a policy change initiated by then-President Barack Obama in 2011 to pull back from deporting immigrants who had formed deep ties in the United States and whom the government considered no threat to public safety. Instead, the administration would prioritize illegal immigrants who had committed serious crimes.
Last month, things changed again for the painter, who has lived in the United States illegally since 2005 and has a U.S.-born child. He received news that the government wanted to put his deportation case back on the court calendar, citing another shift in priorities, this time by President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration has moved to reopen the cases of hundreds of illegal immigrants who, like Velasquez, had been given a reprieve from deportation, according to government data and court documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with immigration lawyers.
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NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)So you spend resources to target law-abiding, working people like Velasquez and let criminals go free. Not to mention breaking up families and plunging children into poverty.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)and eating a turkey leg in front of starving children and their families, cackling like some corrupt politician in a penny dreadful melodrama.
"That'll show those brown foreign people! How dare they attempt to come to our country and make a living when rich white children can't afford caviar truffle skin lotion!"
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Trump said he was only going to target criminals. I didn't know painting houses was crime...
Solly Mack
(90,780 posts)And Trump/GOP/idiot supporters don't care.
justgamma
(3,666 posts)luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)Kleveland
(1,257 posts)So we don't have to guess anymore.
It is so obvious that he just wants to wreck every little thing that Obama ever did.
He is a vindictive, insecure, baby.
While he's at it, I have a challenge that he could never fulfill.
How about not lying for 24 hours?
He may think he is so smart and powerful, but he is a slave to his own insecurities.
There is no way he could do this, at all.
Think he is up for it?
tanyev
(42,606 posts)Donald Trump continually convinces me that this is a plausible story.
Alt-Orange
(94 posts)It's all about reversing anything good the Black Guy did. It's sick... fucking sick.