Posted on 07/09/2017 5:50:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit in charge of deportations has directed his officers to take action against all undocumented immigrants they may cross paths with, regardless of criminal histories. The guidance appears to go beyond the Trump administration’s publicly stated aims, and some advocates say may explain a marked increase in immigration arrests.
In a February memo, Matthew Albence, a career official who heads the Enforcement and Removal Operations division of ICE, informed his 5,700 deportation officers that, “effective immediately, ERO officers will take enforcement action against all removable aliens encountered in the course of their duties.”
The Trump administration, including Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, has been clear in promising to ramp up immigration enforcement, but has so far emphasized that its priority was deporting immigrants who posed a public safety threat. Indeed, Kelly, to whom Albence ultimately reports, had seemed to suggest a degree of discretion when he told the agencies under his command earlier this year that immigration officers “may” initiate enforcement actions against any undocumented person they encountered. That guidance was issued just a day before Albence sent the memo to his staff.
A spokesman with ICE said Albence’s directive did not represent a break with Kelly’s stated aims, and was consistent with current agency policies.
“The memo directly supports the directions handed down in the executive orders and mirrors the language ICE consistently uses to describe its enforcement posture,” the spokeswoman, Sarah Rodriguez, said in a statement. “As Secretary Kelly and Acting Director [of ICE] Homan have stated repeatedly, ICE prioritizes the arrest and removal of national security and public safety threats; however, no class or category of alien in the United States is exempt from arrest or removal.”(continued)
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TEARS OF JOY.
#winning
The way it should be...PERIOD!!!!
Rule of Law slowly returning to the greatest country on earth.
Law & Order!
Great news. Just the risk of getting caught will have illegals fleeing back to
Mexico or whatever country they came from.
In a February memo, Matthew Albence, a career official who heads the Enforcement and Removal Operations division of ICE, informed his 5,700 deportation officers that, “effective immediately, ERO officers will take enforcement action against all removable aliens encountered in the course of their duties.”
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Removable aliens, not undocumented immigrants.
yes, key word here is “removable” which AFAIK, they have been through the entire hearing process and a have a deport order in place. no further hearings are necessary, they go straight on the bus.
Why is this news?
Yes just watch the enablers make hay with that term “removable aliens”
We know that those are aliens here ILLEGALLY, but they will attempt to include EVERY foreign born person living in the US...
that would include ME...
Hopefully the self-deportations will accelerate and save ICE some work.
You mean, they are actually allowed to do their jobs and enforce the law? What a novel idea!
They need to take the illegals also.
This is why we voted for President Trump.
Supreme Court Justices who believe that the Constitution means what it says. Win!
Enforcing the rule of law and deporting all illegals. Win!
The only remaining top priority (besides 3-4 more SCOTUS appointments and 11 million more deportations) is repeal Obamacare. I’m okay with President Trump dismantling Obamacare by executive order if Congress won’t do what they were elected to do. Then once Obamacare is ineffective, even the RINOs will do their job and repeal that terrible law.
It’s THE LAW!
MAGA
Even Obama? ((evil grin))
“undocumented immigrants”
Let’s put that tired term to bed.
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