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ICE raided a meatpacking plant.
More than 500 kids missed school the next day
Some of the students who didn't show up weren't directly affected by the raid,
said Stephanie Teatro, co-executive director of the Tennessee Refugee &
Immigrant Rights Coalition.
November 14:In a "60 Minutes” interview scheduled to air
Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump said he planned to immediately deport 2
million to 3 million undocumented immigrants who “have criminal records” after
his inauguration next January.
January 26: The Obama Record on Deportations: Deporter in Chief or
Not?
Border apprehensions and removals increased in FY 2016 compared to the prior
year, DHS reported. In FY 2016, DHS carried out 530,250 apprehensions and
344,354 removals, compared to 462,388 apprehensions and 333,341 removals a year
earlier. Despite the increase, these numbers were far lower than the peak of
enforcement operations at the beginning of the Obama years, after he inherited a
robust enforcement regime from his predecessors. These numbers dipped as new
enforcement priorities were put in place, before rebounding slightly at the end
of the Obama presidency.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not
February 10: The Trump Deportation Regime
Has Begun ...
On Twitter: My statement as to
what's happening in Sweden was in reference to a story that was broadcast
on
@FoxNews
concerning immigrants & Sweden.
February 19
@realDonaldTrump
February 20: Sweden has 15 suburbs with high crime rates
...
but the recent influx of refugees doesn’t explain the problem. Rinkeby [where
the riots occurred] is one of
these 15 areas. ... these were problem areas before [the riots] ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-crime-sweden/story?id=45610077
On Twitter: Last year there were
app 50% more murders only in Orlando/Orange in Florida, where Trump spoke the
other day, than in all of Sweden. Bad.
February 20
@carlbildt
February 21: Trump's new deportation
plan is a worst-case scenario for Mexico
"When aliens so apprehended do not pose a risk of a subsequent illegal
entry or attempted illegal entry, returning them to the foreign contiguous
territory from which they arrived, pending the outcome of removal
proceedings saves the Department's detention and adjudication resources
for other priority aliens," it
adds.
... these provisions would mean many immigrants not originally from Mexico
— Guatemalans, Honduras, Salvadorans, or Haitians, among others — would
still be put in the hands of Mexican authorities, who would have to decide
their next steps.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-deportation-plan-mexico-2017-2
February 21: The Trump administration on Tuesday delivered
its most explicit embrace yet of Obama-era protections for young undocumented
immigrants -- while at the same time issuing new rules that immigration
advocates fear effectively chips away at the previous barriers to deportation.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/21/politics/daca-dreamers-donald-trump-both-ways/
February
22: A day after falsely suggesting there was an immigration-related
security incident in Sweden, President Donald Trump said on Sunday his comment
was based on a television report he had seen.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-sweden-idUSKBN15Y0QH
February 23: President Donald Trump, meeting with business leaders at the White House on
Thursday, described his administration's moves to deport undocumented immigrants
as a "military operation," a label that runs counter to what his administration
has previously said.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/23/politics/donald-trump-deportation-military/
April 4: Trump supporter regrets vote after
undocumented husband is deported
Helen Beristain thought President Trump would deport only the criminals and
troublemakers.
Then her husband was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials
despite his clean record, making her wish she hadn’t voted in the presidential
election at all.
For the past two months, Beristain and a cadre of pro bono immigration attorneys
has fought to keep her husband, Roberto Beristain — the father of three American
children and owner of a successful restaurant, Eddie’s Steak Shed in Granger,
Ind. — in the United States.
May 21:
April 8:
Panicked Americans looking to escape a Donald Trump
presidency by fleeing to Canada may find the process is not as straightforward
as they had hoped.
Immigration experts say the U.S. immigration chatter is overblown and fuelled by
fear. They say Americans threaten to move to Canada in the lead-up to every U.S.
election, but rarely follow through.
May 26: In the first 100
days of the Trump administration: 41,318 immigrants were arrested. Of that
total, 30,473 had criminal convictions ... That amounts to roughly percent
74%.
The other quarter of the total, numbering 10,845, have no
criminal convictions ...
June 30: Oceanside minister supported Trump,
now he faces deportation
Jorge Ramirez, an
Oceanside minister and unauthorized immigrant, didn’t think he would end up
in line for deportation when he encouraged his U.S. citizen daughter to vote for
now-President
Donald Trump.
In line with his conservative religious beliefs, Ramirez considers himself a
Republican, he said in an interview at Otay Mesa Detention Center, where he is
awaiting deportation proceedings. Border Patrol picked him up after staking out
his house early one May morning, and he’s been in the detention facility since.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-oceanside-bond-20170630-story.html
July 7: Trump’s Deportation Surge Is Harming
Domestic Abuse Survivors ... The administration’s aggressive crackdown on
undocumented immigrants is pushing women into the shadows.
According to the Institute for Women’s Policy and Research,
family-court cases make up the bulk of legal-service caseloads nationwide. The
largest number of cases supported by LSC attorneys are related to domestic
abuse, divorce, and child-custody issues. Surveys by National Network to End
Domestic Violence (NNEDV) indicate that “legal representation by an attorney was
the second most sought-after—but unmet—request to social service providers, and
that only 12 percent of programs nationally were able to provide this service.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/trumps-deportation-surge-is-harming-domestic-abuse-survivors/
August 1: Samantha Colindrés knows July 20,
2017, will go down in her family's history as one of the worst days ever. That's
when she learned her husband, Joel, was given less than a month to end life as
he knows it, abandon her and their two kids, leave his job and his home, and
move back to Guatemala.
September 29:Fear itself: Donald Trump's real immigration policy
... It’s not mass deportation. It’s not self-deportation. It’s something
cheaper, and more insidious.
November 10:The Nightmare of Donald Trump's Deportation Promise
... Many of the DACA youth, known as Dreamers, are worried that Trump will
unleash his deportation force and send them back to their home countries.
The personal details of these youth are in a government database. Government
officials know where they live. They know where they work. And they have their
fingerprints.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) is reportedly looking into ways to use machine learning technologyand social media monitoring to identify people
for visa denial–and to select people for deportation from the United
States. After IBM attended the informational meeting, rights groups are
concerned that the company might be considering getting involved with the
program.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40497258/groups-urge-ibm-not-to-use-ai-to-help-trump-deport-immigrants
November 21:Trump Administration Will Deport 24,000 Haitians
Living in South Florida by 2019
... despite the still-dire conditions on Hispaniola's
western half, the Trump administration yesterday announced its final decision on
whether to extend TPS for the 60,000 Haitian nationals living under the program
for a few more years — and the news isn't good for those in Miami. Yesterday the
administration said it is extending TPS one last time, until July 2019, and then
afterward, every Haitian living in the United States with TPS status must leave.
They have 18 months to pack
their bags.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/trump-ending-tps-deporting-24000-haitian-miamians-by-2019-9846560
Human Rights Watch found that the number of people detained inside the U.S.
rather than at the border — meaning that they were not new arrivals — increased
by 42 percent over last year, while immigration arrests of people with no
criminal convictions nearly tripled.
https://theintercept.com/2017/12/06/trump-immigration-deportation-dhs/
December 19:Have deportations increased under Donald Trump?
Here’s what the data shows
Trump got to the White House promising "law and order" and directed immigration
officials to deport anyone in the country illegally — no exceptions.
Data from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement show that overall, fewer
people were deported in fiscal year 2017 than in 2016 (fiscal year 2017 included
nearly four months of the Obama administration). Overall removal numbers include
individuals arrested by ICE in the interior of the country and individuals
apprehended by immigration officials at the border and turned over to ICE for
removal.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/dec/19/have-deportations-increased-under-donald-trump-her/
December 23:Defying Trump again, Jerry Brown pardons immigrants
about to be deported
Back to top
Escalating the state’s showdown with the Trump
administration over illegal immigration, California Gov. Jerry Brown used a
Christmas holiday tradition to grant pardons Saturday to two men who were on the
verge of being deported for committing crimes while in the U.S.
December 27:Trump Sends
Fewer Mexicans Home Despite Deportation Talk ... President
Donald Trump sent 26 percent fewer Mexicans back home this year through
November than Barack Obama did in the same period in 2016, despite vows to crack
down on illegal immigration, Mexican government data show.
December 30:Donald Trump says he won't protect young people
from deportation unless border wall is built ... The President's tweet is the
latest attempt to push forward on his much-promised but stalled wall
Donald Trump says
he won't protect young people from deportation unless the Democrats commit to
pay for his border wall.
January 9:Trump: I'll Sign Legislation Protecting Young
Immigrants From Deportation
U.S. President Donald Trump told key lawmakers Tuesday that he would sign
whatever legislation they agreed upon to protect hundreds of thousands of young
immigrants from being deported and to improve security along the country's
border with Mexico.
In an extraordinary televised meeting at the White House, Trump said that
comprehensive immigration reforms could be dealt with later. He said he still
believed a wall needed to be built along at least part of the 3,200-kilometer
(1,990-mile) U.S.-Mexico border, but he seemed to back off earlier demands that
it be funded immediately.
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-congress-immigration-daca-dreamers/4199751.html
January 9:The Trump Administration Is Putting Nearly 1
Million at Risk of Deportation ... While the media
focuses on the president’s fitness, aides are codifying Trump’s fire and fury
into official government policy.
January 14:Trump: Deportation Protection Program 'Probably
Dead'
U.S. President Donald Trump contended Sunday that a U.S. program to protect
young immigrants from deportation is "probably dead," saying that opposition
Democrats "don't really want it," but just want to be able to talk about the
issue.
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-daca-program-probably-dead/4207161.html
January 25:Is Trump about to deport an American citizen?
Niec arrived in this country in 1979 with his
parents, both physicians from Poland. A legal permanent resident since 1989, he
was raised in Michigan, where he has practiced medicine since 2007. He does not
speak Polish. He has visited the nation of his birth once, as a teenager, and
has no acquaintances there.
His sudden arrest at his home in Texas Charter Township and detention at a
nearby jail last week came as a surprise not only to Niec and his family but to
friends and colleagues on the staff of Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo,
where Niec serves in the department of internal medicine.
http://theweek.com/articles/750212/trump-about-deport-american-citizen
January 30:Trump’s path to
citizenship for 1.8 million will leave out nearly half of all Dreamers ... Which “Dreamers” will be given legal recourse to
stay in the U.S., and which ones will be left out?
This is the central question surrounding current debate in Washington over a
group of undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children. The
scramble for a solution has taken on greater urgency since the Trump
administration announced that DACA would be phased out and ended in March 2018.
That deadline is currently on hold due to
a federal court ruling – but a battle in Congress over the Dreamers’ fate
closed the federal government for 69 hours earlier this month.
http://theconversation.com/trumps-path-to-citizenship-for-1-8-million-will-leave-out-nearly-half-of-all-dreamers-90899
January 30: Amer
Othman Adi deported after living 40 years in US
Adi was a business owner in Youngstown, a city of 64,000. "He hired members of
our community. He paid taxes. He did everything right," Ryan continued.
Born in Jordan to
Palestinian
parents, Adi came to the US at the age of 19. He received a green card, or
permanent residence permit, after his first marriage.
Immigration authorities began removal procedures against the immigrant after his
first wife said their marriage was fake.
After being charged with "marriage fraud," Adi lived under a deport order from
2009.
January 30: Al Adi reunited with mother, but
without wife, daughters ... U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported
Adi, a well-known downtown businessman, on Monday after detaining him for nearly
two weeks.
Adi’s wife of 29 years, Fidaa Musleh, and daughters worried all day Monday when
they didn’t hear from him. But that night, Adi was able to call them and say he
was on his way to Jordan from Chicago.
January 30:Miguel Perez Jr., a U.S. Army veteran of the Afghan
war and a green card holder, is in danger of being deported as soon as this
week, according to the Tribune. A federal court denied Perez's appeal to
stay in the U.S. after he finished a prison term for a drug conviction. Perez,
who came to the U.S. when he was an eight-year-old and served two tours of duty
in Afghanistan, is worried about his safety after a deportation to Mexico. His
family and supporters say it's hypocritical to deport a veteran legally living
in the U.S.
January 31: Family of Syrians Deported From
Philadelphia Supported Donald Trump ... “I understand he [Trump] wants to make
America safe,” Sarmad Assali said. "We're all on with this. I definitely want to
be in a safe place ..."
Assali and her husband, Dr. Ghassan Assali, who has a dentistry practice and
received his degree from New York University, are originally from Syria but have
been living in the United States for more than 20 years.
Assali's two brothers, their wives and their two children initiated their
immigration attempts in 2003 while living in Syria. In December 2016, they were
approved to join Assali and her husband in Allentown after the couple bought and
furnished a home for them.
February 2:Trump threatens tariffs on China for refusing to
help deportations
President Trump
threatened Friday to slap tariffs or other sanctions on China and other
countries that refuse to cooperate in taking back their illegal immigrants and
criminals, saying he was determined to get serious about the problem.
February 2: Army Veteran With PTSD Who Has
Lived in the U.S. Since He Was 8 Likely to Be Deported
Miguel Perez Jr., a 39-year-old Chicago resident, mistakenly thought he became a
citizen when he joined the military in 2001. But the green card holder was wrong
about that and the veteran who has served two tours in Afghanistan and has two
children who are U.S. citizens is likely to face deportation due to a felony
drug conviction. He started a hunger strike this week as a form of protest after
a court denied his appeal to remain in the United States, where he has lived
since he was 8 years old.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/an-army-veteran-with-ptsd-who-has-lived-in-the-u-s-since-he-was-8-likely-to-be-deported.html?via=recirc_recent
February 4: When will 'Dreamers' be at risk
of being deported?
President Trump gave Congress until March 5 to legislate a
replacement for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which
currently protects around 690,000 so-called Dreamers from deportation.
Under DACA, only some Dreamers — immigrants who arrived in the U.S. illegally as
children — are protected. To qualify for the program, applicants had to be at
least 15 years old, prove that they'd arrived in the country before the age of
16, been living in the country since at least June 15, 2007, and be under 31
years of age as of June 15, 2012.
April 12: ICE raided a meatpacking plant.
More than 500 kids missed school the next day
Some of the students who didn't show up weren't directly affected by the raid,
said Stephanie Teatro, co-executive director of the Tennessee Refugee &
Immigrant Rights Coalition.
June 7: Woman's forced labor for Salvadoran
guerrillas means she must leave US, court rules
According to the court documents, the woman was kidnapped by the guerrillas in
El Salvador and made to do the cooking and cleaning "under threat of death." She
was also "forced to witness her husband, a sergeant in the Salvadoran Army, dig
his own grave before being killed."
Nevertheless, the
2-1 opinion holds that the woman's coerced duties for the group constituted
"material support" for a terrorist organization, and thus made her ineligible to
be granted asylum or have her deportation order canceled in the US -- though a
lower court judge had ruled she would otherwise be eligible for such relief.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/06/politics/woman-el-salvador-guerillas-ruling/index.html
July 9: Judge rejects Trump request for
long-term detention of immigrant children
July 12: Health and Human Services was
unable to reunite 12 of the 46 young immigrant children who were separated from
their parents because the adults were deported and chose to leave their child in
U.S. federal custody, an official confirmed Thursday.
The dozen adults "had the opportunity to bring the child with them" when they
were given removal orders, but opted against it, Matthew Albence, executive
associate director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement
and Removal Operations, told reporters during a call Thursday.
July 13: In a concession to the court, the
administration said it would truncate the process it used to reunify younger
migrant children, which involved fingerprinting and DNA testing to confirm
parentage and check for criminal history.
HHS is facing a July 26 court-ordered deadline to reunite all of the children.
Under an amended plan that the Trump administration said it began deploying on
Friday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will set up between six and eight
locations where families can be reunified. HHS field teams will then interview
prospective parents for 15 minutes to confirm parentage and a desire to reunite
with the child; HHS also will review available records to determine criminal
history or other factors that may pose a risk to the child.
July 16: Federal judge pauses deportations
of reunited families
San Diego-based US District Court Judge Dana Sabraw addressed the issue at the
top of a status hearing in a continuing family separations case filed by the
American Civil Liberties Union.
July 16: Federal prosecutor: two immigrant
children in Connecticut to be reunited with parents
Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle McConaghy filed court documents stating a
nine-year-old Honduran boy identified as J.S.R. and a 14-year-old Salvadoran
girl referred to as V.F.B. will be reunited with their parents. The court
filings note the parents will be granted parole from federal custody.
“At this stage, Plaintiffs’ parents can only be released from detention through
a solely discretionary grant of parole under narrowly prescribed circumstances,
such as a present ‘urgent humanitarian reason or significant public benefit’,”
the filings said. “Having considered all the factors presented in this case,
(U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) will be granting Plaintiffs’ parents’
request for parole from custody under the terms and conditions set forth by ICE
at the time of parole.”
https://ctmirror.org/2018/07/16/federal-prosecutor-two-immigrant-children-connecticut-reunited-parents/
July 16: Dozens of "desperate parents"
detained at the U.S. border have signed an open letter to the American people
pleading for support in their efforts to be reunited with their children.
"We were not prepared for the nightmare that we faced here," the letter says.
"The United States government kidnapped our children with tricks and didn't give
us the opportunity to say goodbye."
The letter says the parents have been separated from their children for more
than a month with little word about their well-being, other than that the kids
are living with other families.
July 16: When President Trump signed an
executive order ending his policy of separating migrant families at the border,
his administration seemed to
have no plan for reuniting the nearly 3,000 children with their parents.
Several days later, a federal judge said that was unacceptable, giving the
government 14 days to reunite the youngest children with their parents, and 30
days to return all the children.
The Trump administration failed to fully meet the first deadline. While U.S.
District Judge Dana Sabraw initially praised the Department of Health and Human
Services for its “good faith” effort to meet the July 10 deadline, only 58 of
the 103 separated children under 5 years old were reunited by Thursday. The
government said 33 parents could not be reunited with their children because
they were in criminal custody, and 12 adults had already been deported.
July 24: The Trump administration may have
deported up to 463 parents of children separated by immigration officials at the
border, even as their children remain in U.S. custody. A federal judge has
ordered the Trump administration to reunite all separated migrant children and
parents by July 26th—that’s Thursday. But new government filings reveal nearly
500 of these parents are no longer in the country. In total, at least 1,700
children are still in U.S. custody, waiting to be reunited with their parents.
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/24/headlines/trump_admin_may_have_deported_up_to_463_parents_of_children_separated_at_border
July 27: Wife of a former US Marine is
facing deportation to Mexico
The Davenport resident has no criminal record but faces a removal order over her
1998 illegal entry into the United States, Soto said. She's married to a former
Marine and Iraq War veteran, and they have two girls, ages 8 and 16, who are US
citizens.
August 9: An angry federal judge on Thursday
ordered a plane carrying a mother and daughter deported by the Trump
administration to turn around and head back to the US because they were
plaintiffs in a lawsuit he was hearing over asylum restrictions.
Washington, DC, Judge Emmet Sullivan was hearing a lawsuit filed by the American
Civil Liberties Union and Center for Gender and Refugee Studies when he learned
of the deportations — which came after he was assured by administration lawyers
that none of the plaintiffs would be kicked out
https://nypost.com/2018/08/09/judge-orders-plane-carrying-deported-mom-and-daughter-back-to-us/
August 9: The mother in the case, identified
in court papers only as "Carmen," is at the center of a lawsuit filed by the
American Civil Liberties Union, which challenges a decision by [Attorney
General Jeff] Sessions to exclude domestic and gang violence as reasons for
immigrants to be granted asylum.
[Judge] Sullivan, who sits on the U.S. court in the District of
Columbia, threatened to hold Sessions in contempt of court.
August 9: Jennifer Chang Newell, managing
attorney with the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement that
the administration’s actions were putting immigrants in “grave danger.”
“In its rush to deport as many immigrants as possible, the Trump administration
is putting these women and children in grave danger of being raped, beaten, or
killed,” her statement read. “We are thrilled the stay of removal was issued but
sickened that the government deported two of our clients — a mom and her little
girl — in the early morning hours. We will not rest until our clients are
returned to safety.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/09/mother-daughter-deportation-halted-by-judge-threatening-to-hold-sessions-in-contempt.html
August 9: Deported Mother and Daughter on
Plane Judge Ordered to Turn Back Didn't Know Fate Until Landing
A woman immigration officials put on a plane to El Salvador last week despite
government promises not to deport her said she was "very sad and scared" on the
flight, according to a statement in court documents filed Monday ...
"While we were in the air, no one told me anything about what was happening,"
the woman said.
September 7: A bill that would redefine the
crimes for which someone could be deported was approved Friday by the U.S. House
of Representatives on a 247-152 vote and praised by President Donald Trump.
"Under our horrible immigration laws, the Government is frequently blocked from
deporting criminal aliens with violent felony convictions,"
Trump
tweeted. He added that lawmakers "need to get this bill to my desk fast!"
September 15:
The crackdown on sanctuary cities gives birth to 'freedom cities'
Advocates for undocumented immigrants believe they've found a new — and legal —
way to skirt deportation efforts.
The newest solution has been "freedom city" policies, which unlike sanctuary
initiatives, create new ways for city officials to comply legally with federal
rules and state laws, while still protecting undocumented immigrants.
For example, under a strict Texas law called SB 4, police officers can ask
people they stop about their immigration status. One of the "freedom city"
resolutions passed by Austin, however, instructs police to also inform people
they stop that they may refuse to answer those questions.
November 6: The hotel chain Motel 6 has
agreed to pay $7.6 million to settle a class-action lawsuit after multiple Motel
6 locations gave guest lists to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Sharing those lists led to arrests and deportations of an as-yet-unknown number
of hotel guests.
December 12:
Dozens More Cambodian Immigrants to Be Deported From U.S., Officials Say
The Trump administration is preparing to deport the largest group yet of
legal Cambodian immigrants to the United States over the next few days,
according to human rights groups and an American official, continuing a wave of
deportation that has fallen heavily on refugees who fled the upheaval
surrounding the Vietnam War.
The new deportations include an expected 46 people who are scheduled to arrive
in Cambodia on Dec. 19, the American official said. The official spoke on
condition of anonymity to discuss details of deportations that had not been
officially announced.
Many of those being deported have few or no memories of Cambodia, as they were
part of an exodus fleeing Khmer Rouge massacres and were granted refugee status
in the United States. Some actually have green cards and have been convicted of
a felony while in the United States, though often from many years ago.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/world/asia/trump-deport-cambodians.html
December 20: New Orleans' Vietnamese
community reacts to Trump’s proposed immigrant policy change
Maggie Tran’s family was part of the early wave of Vietnamese refugees who
arrived in New Orleans in the mid-1970s after the Vietnam War. She was only 5
years old at the time.
Over the following decades, the number of people of Vietnamese descent living in
the New Orleans area has grown, reaching close to 15,800 by 2010, according to
the most recent U.S. Census data available.
The Vietnamese community was rattled last week by the news that the Trump
administration had proposed reversing a 2008 agreement with Vietnam that
protected all Vietnamese nationals who arrived before July 12, 1995 from
potential deportation. The reversal specifically targets Vietnamese refugees who
are undocumented and those with criminal records, who had been previously
shielded by the agreement.
https://www.nola.com/news/2018/12/new-orleans-vietnamese-community-reacts-to-trumps-proposed-immigrant-policy-change.html
