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https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/before-trumps-purge-at-dhs-top-officials-challenged-plan-for-mass-family-arrests/2019/05/13/d7cb91ce-75af-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.htmlBefore Trumps purge at DHS, top officials challenged plan for mass family arrests
By Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey
May 13 at 8:11 PM Josh Dawsey
In the weeks before they were ousted last month, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and top immigration enforcement official Ronald Vitiello challenged a secret White House plan to arrest thousands of parents and children in a blitz operation against migrants in 10 major U.S. cities.
According to seven current and former Department of Homeland Security officials, the administration wanted to target the crush of families that had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border after the presidents failed zero tolerance prosecution push in early 2018. The ultimate purpose, the officials said, was a show of force to send the message that the United States was going to get tough by swiftly moving to detain and deport recent immigrants including families with children.
The sprawling operation included an effort to fast-track immigration court cases, allowing the government to obtain deportation orders against those who did not show for their hearings officials said 90 percent of those targeted were found deportable in their absence. The subsequent arrests would have required coordinated raids against parents with children in their homes and neighborhoods.
But Vitiello and Nielsen halted it, concerned about a lack of preparation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the risk of public outrage and worries that it would divert resources from the border.
Senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller and ICE Deputy Director Matthew Albence were especially supportive of the plan, officials said, eager to execute dramatic, highly visible mass arrests that they argued would help deter the soaring influx of families.
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Trump officials planned to arrest and deport thousands of parents and children in 10 major cities (Original Post)
dalton99a
May 2019
OP
So many crazy English kings I have read about, and we now have one in America.
rusty quoin
May 2019
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rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)1. So many crazy English kings I have read about, and we now have one in America.
tanyev
(42,556 posts)2. So ready for the day when karma catches up with Stephen Miller.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)3. Some private prisons must have had empty beds.