Posted on 03/30/2018 10:37:17 AM PDT by mandaladon
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration said Thursday that it ended special considerations to generally release pregnant women charged with being in the United States illegally while their cases wind through immigration court.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it scrapped a policy that took effect in August 2016 that pregnant women should be released unless they met limited criteria that required them to be held by law, such as serious criminal histories, or if there were "extraordinary circumstances."
The new policy, which took effect in December but wasn't announced until Thursday, gives no blanket special consideration to pregnancy, though the agency says each case will be reviewed individually and women in their third trimester will generally be released.
The move is the latest effort to scrap immigration policies created in the final two years of Barack Obama's administration. Shortly after Trump took office, rules that generally limited deportations to convicted criminals, public safety threats and recent border crossers were lifted, making anyone in the country illegally vulnerable. Deportation arrests have spiked more than 40 percent under Trump's watch.
Administration officials said new rules on pregnant women aligned with the president's executive orders last year for heightened immigration enforcement.
"All across our enforcement portfolio, we're no longer exempting any individual from being subject to the law," said Philip Miller, deputy executive associate director of ICE's enforcement and removal operations.
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Free transport to the nearest pph facility?
We need to speed up the removal process.
Deport them before their anchor babies are born.
Spend the money saved on American veterans.
Bump!
Declare the land on which the illegal pregnant detainees are held to be non-sovereign territory. That is, do what is necessary to defeat the anchor baby drop.
If they’re pregnant there should be an expedited hearing process to send them home before they give birth.
Yep, like salmon they should return upstream to spawn.
I prefer: Take your time...but READ and FOLLOW the full language of the 14th
POOF. ‘Problem’ solved.
Dismantle the illegal Welfare State and, “POOF”, MORE problem(s) solved.
Damn, it’s AMAZING the solutions found by just reading/adhering/defending and promoting Federalism via the Constitution.
If ya can’t do the time don’t do the crime.
The pregnancy is irrelevant to their status as criminal and whatever crimes they committed.
I read an article on FR about Chinese and Russian pregnant women coming here pregnant saying they are on vacation until the real reason is to have their children be US citizens at birth. That’s the reason why they are kept in their place right now...
They used to run buses to pick up the instant citizen creators and bring them across.
Get ‘em processed and deported before the anchor babies pop out.
Rich Chinese have their own method to plan for dual citizenship babies. Big industry in California.
Hold them?! Deport them before they pop out a baby. Should never hold an illegal alien for more than a few mintutes or hours. Pack them on the next bus or plane, dump them across the border immediately.
We really need a definitive court decision that anchor babies are not U.S. citizens under the 14th amendment. That would end a lot of this.
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