Trump Immigration ICE Raids: Mass Deportations Have Begun, Congressman Says

[HAB911]

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro accused President Trump on Thursday of putting a mass deportation program into place, saying it goes beyond anything orchestrated by prior administrations.

In a flurry of tweets, Castro said it’s “hard not to conclude” that mass deportations have begun following a meeting he attended with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

He said ICE officials made it clear only Dreamers — undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children and protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order — without any offenses “including traffic tickets” or perceived gang affiliations would be exempt. He said the only thing that will limit the program is the size of ICE’s budget.

http://www.ibtimes.com/trump-immigration-ice-raids-mass-deportations-have-begun-congressman-says-2493528

[MrScorpio]

1. "Perceived" gang affiliations, eh?

Which means that existing while brown is all they need.

[Luciferous]

2. That stood out to me as well.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. Arm yourselves

Immigrants need to band together and arm themselves. Fight for your families.

[pangaia]

8. Arm themselves? Are you serious?

[Johnny2X2X]

10. What would you do?

What would you do if they were coming to take you away from your family and eject you from your home and country? If I told you that right now they were in their way to your home to destroy your family and tear it apart for ever, what would you do? Immigrants live here and have a moral right to be here and keep their families intact. It's pure racism to try to destroy their families.

I can tell you that if it was a bunch of minorities coming to tear white faniliee apart and eject whites from the country, people would fight. So fight, fight however you can.

[enough]

12. A great way to bring the full force of a police state down upon entire communities.

Can you actually think that any attempt to fight this with violence would bring any good result for anyone?

Trump is just waiting for an excuse to escalate this to domestic warfare.

[LanternWaste]

13. If we are going to arm ourselves, best to strap on rational thought rather than firearms.

Ask yourself what would have happened had the interred Japanese-Americans in the US had applied your sentiment. Ask yourself to reflect on the results of Amerindians applying your sentiment. Ask yourself what the state reponse would have been had the civil rights supporters applied your tactic.

To avoid disingenuous answers, respond to yourself rather than me (as I'm guessing you'll simply rationalize an absurd public answer), but do it honestly.

If we are going to arm ourselves, best to strap on rational thought rather than firearms.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Trump's Gestapo. Their reach is only beginning. They have cart blanche.

DACA people are in danger. There is no due process. Suspicions of any conduct can result in deportation. If a DACA person gets a ticket for improper change of lanes, deportation can result. If a DACA person has a gang-related neighbor, deportation can result.

What ICE is ALSO doing is dismantling the economic backbone for much of the nation's agricultural system. But why care about crops rotting in the fields (It's already happening in Georgia.) when you can "Make America White Again"?

[C_U_L8R]

5. First they came for the Muslims, now they've come for the immigrants...

how soon until it's the Liberals turn? When will it be YOUR turn?
And who's gonna be left to stop them ???? !!!!

[pangaia]

9. Coming back from a short trip to Toronto a couple weeks ago,

The 'border guard,' after looking at my passport, which has stamps for Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Germany, Finland, ONLY PICKED UP ON ONE!
"I see you have been to Oman." I am 73, single and white..


WTF!!

[mucifer]

6. Just remember President Obama did a lot of this. I remember raids in factories here in Chicago.

The detention centers are awful places. Things were bad under President Obama. I understand they will get worse now. But, I don't want President Obama to get a pass for what he did:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/opinion/mr-obamas-dubious-detention-centers.html?_r=0



and another article from the Hill:
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/222107-dems-press-obama-on-immigrant-detainees

House Democrats are expressing new concerns about how the Obama administration is handling immigrant mothers and children who were among the thousands detained at the southern border this past summer.

In a letter to President Obama, 32 House Democrats decried the government’s construction of new centers to handle the surge of immigrants, and questioned whether people were being held unnecessarily.

At the current rates, within one year this Administration will have increased capacity to detain immigrant women and children by more than 4,000 percent,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), who was behind Tuesday's letter, said in a statement.

“As the law requires, there needs to be a better assessment in place to appropriately screen and assess these women and children, many of whom are fleeing violence, torture or persecution in Central America,” she said.

[HAB911]

7. Same could be said

about drones..........guess who has them now?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. It can't happen here. nt