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Undated: The Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office is a U.S. government agency established within the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration in February 2017.[1][2] President Trump directed it be established by Executive Order 13768.[3]
The VOICE office will issue quarterly reports studying the effects of the victimization by criminal aliens present in the United States.[2][5]
Amanda Erickson wrote in The Washington Post that publishing regular reports on the illicit behavior of undocumented immigrants – as well as singling out a particular group – "was employed to great effect by Adolf Hitler and his allies. In the 1930s, the Nazis used a similar tactic to stir up anger and hatred toward Jews"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Immigration_Crime_Engagement
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Undated:
March 1: As mandated by Trump's executive order signed last month, the Department of Homeland Security announced ... the Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement office, or VOICE ... to call attention to crimes committed by undocumented immigrants ...
... DHS Secretary John Kelly ordered the reallocation of any [Homeland Security] resources currently going to advocating for undocumented immigrants [to] be re-routed to fund the [VOICE] office. ... Studies conducted by organizations that support pro-immigration policies have found that immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate than the general public ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/28/politics/donald-trump-voice-victim-reporting/index.html
April 27: Trump's immigrant crime hotline trolled with calls about aliens and UFOs
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39731085
April 27: Trump’s Office for Immigrant Crime Could Help Undocumented Immigrants
Officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement say undocumented immigrants are welcome to report crimes on a hotline designed to profile them.
President Donald Trump spent the campaign and his first weeks in office boasting about his plans to help victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. He talked it up in his speech to a joint session of Congress as one of his signature initiatives.
The office would be a massively important undertaking, he said, and it would help people the Obama administration ignored out of political correctness.
On Wednesday, Homeland Security Sec. John Kelly announced that office has been set up. And so far, it’s…underwhelming. The office doesn’t have a budget, it uses Immigration and Customs Enforcement staff who already work there, and the only new thing is a toll-free hotline victims can call. And that hotline, officials noted, will be available for undocumented immigrants who are themselves victims of crime, since people who call in won’t get asked about their immigration status.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-office-for-immigrant-crime-could-help-undocumented-immigrants
May 7: The VOICE office enables citizens to denounce their neighbors
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/05/06/trump-turned-into-nation-informers/AO0cSyqIkNYxvW3aD6G1vO/story.html
September 18: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) established the Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office to acknowledge and serve the needs of crime victims and their families who have been affected by crimes committed by individuals with a nexus to immigration.
This office was explicitly called for in the President’s Executive Order titled, “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” dated January 25, 2017.
https://www.ice.gov/voice
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January 23: Provocative Trump ad gives wrong impression on immigrants
President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign released a provocative video featuring an undocumented immigrant accused of killing two Northern California sheriff’s deputies during a crime spree in October 2014. The advertisement accurately captures the outbursts of the accused killer, but it also fuels the stereotype that undocumented immigrants are largely violent.
We examined that narrative last year and found that, in fact, undocumented immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than the native born.
http://www.politifact.com/california/article/2018/jan/23/provocative-trump-campaign-ad-gives-wrong-impressi/
January 26: The Trump Administration’s Dangerous Obsession With Crimes Committed by Immigrants
The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security’s new report on crime and terrorism presents professionally cherry-picked data to bolster the perception that the country is under siege from hordes of foreign criminals. The data compilation, a product of Trump’s executive order on “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” is supposed to make the case for Trump’s crackdown on the border, mass raids, and deportations, and the banning of travelers from various Muslim-majority countries. But even a cursory glance at the numbers the DOJ provides shows how junk statistics help stoke the deep racism of Trump’s anti-immigration agenda, using the same rhetoric that the alt-right deploys to twist notions of “social science” to justify racist discrimination and oppression.
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-trump-administrations-dangerous-obsession-with-crimes-committed-by-immigrants/
January 31: Trump painted a dark picture of immigrants, despite the facts
All available national crime statistics show immigrants commit fewer crimes, not more, than those born in the U.S. Even opponents of increased immigration lack evidence linking immigrants to higher crime rates.
"There's 100 years of data from all different sources that all point in the same direction," said Walter Ewing, senior researcher at the American Immigration Council, which advocates on behalf of immigrants. "If you don't believe one study, there's 10 more behind it that say the same thing."
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/01/31/trump-painted-dark-picture-immigrants-despite-facts/1081208001/
February 9: The White House's weekly 'immigrant crime' tally includes non-crimes and nonimmigrants
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/09/the-white-houses-weekly-immigrant-crime-tally-includes-non-crimes-and-non-immigrants/?utm_term=.d1ecc90ba1c6
February 12: Arrests of Undocumented Immigrants Without Criminal Records Skyrocketed in 2017
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/arrests-of-noncriminal-undocumented-immigrants-skyrocket.html
March 30: Trump’s Immigration Policy Is Based on Four Big Lies
Lie number one: Undocumented immigrants are pouring across our border
Lie number two: Immigrants are criminals
Lie number 3: Immigrants are taking your jobs
Lie number 4: Immigrants (and refugees) pose a terroristic threat
While it is important to combat these lies with a story of America that embraces our values and ideals, we must also imbue that story with the facts that expose the lies.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/30/trumps-immigration-policy-is-based-on-four-big-lies/
April 17: Trump Supreme Court pick sides with liberals in immigration ruling against administration
It was the vote of the Trump appointee that was decisive in the 5-4 decision.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/trump-supreme-court-pick-sides-liberals-immigration-ruling-against-administration-n866681
May 4: Immigrants are afraid of President Trump's crackdown, making it harder to prosecute crimes, ACLU report says
... immigrants are fearful of "immigration consequences," including the possibility of deportation, so they are not helping police. Also, some immigrants who are crime victims are staying away from courthouses where they could testify because they fear arrest by immigration authorities.
The findings are based on survey responses from 232 law enforcement officers in 24 states as well as hundreds of others across all 50 states, including judges, prosecutors, survivor advocates and legal service providers.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/04/crimes-tougher-to-prosecute-due-to-immigrant-fears-says-aclu-report.html
May 17: Trump’s Animals
The president has always blurred the distinction between immigrants and crime.
For Donald Trump, crime and immigration are two sides of the same coin. He has been explicit about the connection since he announced his campaign for president in 2015: “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” He made it throughout the election. “Countless Americans who have died in recent years would be alive today if not for the open border policies of this administration,” he said during a 2016 speech in Arizona. And he has made it as president, routinely juxtaposing crime and immigration, with a particular focus on the gang MS-13. “You’ve seen the stories about some of these animals,” said Trump last year.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/donald-trumps-animal-comments-are-just-his-latest-attempt-to-connect-immigrants-and-crime.html
June 18: Trump falsely claims rising German crime rate as he pushes immigration debate
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/18/politics/german-crime-rate-trump-immigration/index.html
June 22: Trump Highlights Immigrant Crime to Defend His Border Policy. Statistics Don’t Back Him Up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/us/politics/trump-immigration-borders-family-separation.html
June 22: Fact Check - Trump, Illegal Immigration And Crime
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/22/622540331/fact-check-trump-illegal-immigration-and-crime
June 22: Trump tried to honor victims of crimes by unauthorized immigrants — by signing their portraits
The images were displayed at a “permanent separation” event held by the administration.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/22/17494608/trump-family-separation-immigration-autographs
August 13: Under Trump arrests of undocumented immigrants with no criminal record have tripled
"It sends a message to the Hispanic community that we intend to racially profile you," said an immigration attorney.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/under-trump-arrests-undocumented-immigrants-no-criminal-record-have-tripled-n899406
August 31: 'Drug dealers, criminals, rapists': What Trump thinks of Mexicans
Donald Trump, who has repeatedly disparaged Mexico during his presidential campaign, is to visit the country for talks with the president ahead of a speech on immigration.
Here's a look back at some of the things the US presidential hopeful has said about Mexico during his election campaign.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-37230916/drug-dealers-criminals-rapists-what-trump-thinks-of-mexicans
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