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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBy no standard of common sense or decency should Guadalupe Garca de Rayos have been deported
NYT editorial:Bad Dude? No, but Deported Anyway
By no standard of common sense or decency should Guadalupe García de Rayos have been a priority for deportation. Ms. Rayos, a 35-year-old mother of two, was arrested on Wednesday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Phoenix. On Thursday she was deported to Mexico, a country she left 21 years ago. Her devastated family, including her American-born children, remains in the United States.
President Trump persists in the absurd claim that America will be safe and great again only after an assault on bad dudes and criminal aliens, whom he has promised to arrest and remove by the millions.
But Ms. Rayos fits no such definition and was no threat, though she had been living in the United States illegally since she was 14. She had been known to the authorities since she was caught in a workplace raid in Phoenix in 2008. In the years since, she would check in regularly with immigration officials, who chose not to deport her, having more important things to do.
Mr. Trump ran for office promising to eliminate such discretion and replace it with heedless and pointless enforcement. His campaign amplified the nativist passions of his supporters and hard-line advisers, including the man who is now his right hand in the Justice Department, Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
What was always most alarming about Mr. Trumps posturing on immigration wasnt the wall, which will never be built in the way he describes it. It is instead the prospect of ramped-up enforcement that promises to increase misery on both sides of the border. The criminalizing of law-abiding immigrants who have lived in the United States for years, and of the migrants from Central America who arrive desperate for refuge. The households sundered, the jobs lost, the brutal idiocy of it all.
read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/bad-dude-no-but-deported-anyway.html?_r=0
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By no standard of common sense or decency should Guadalupe Garca de Rayos have been deported (Original Post)
bigtree
Feb 2017
OP
If Trump REALLY wanted to be popular, he would make everybody here over 10 yrs
librechik
Feb 2017
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panader0
(25,816 posts)1. Her arrest in 2008 was for providing false info to Immigration.
On that basis, she was arrested 8 YEARS later.
A travesty. Fuck Trump!
librechik
(30,676 posts)2. If Trump REALLY wanted to be popular, he would make everybody here over 10 yrs
eligible to apply for citizenship. That would make millions of harmless folks happy.