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Undated: The U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a law enforcement agency of the
federal government of the United States tasked to enforce the
immigration laws of the United States and to investigate criminal and
terrorist activity of
foreign nationals residing in the United States.[2]
ICE has two primary components: Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and
Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
Undated: The union representing the nation’s
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and staff is throwing its support
behind GOP nominee Donald Trump.
It’s the first time ever that the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Council has endorsed a candidate for president, according to a statement posted
on Trump’s campaign web site Monday.
“Donald Trump reached out to us for a meeting, sat down with me to discuss his
goals for enforcement, and pledged to support ICE officers, our nation’s laws
and our members. In his immigration policy, he has outlined core policies needed
to restore immigration security -- including support for increased interior
enforcement and border security, an end to Sanctuary Cities, an end to
catch-and-release, mandatory detainers, and the canceling of executive amnesty
and non-enforcement directives,” its statement says.
https://iceunion.org/news/ice-union-endorses-trump
February 10: The U.S. Deported a Mom From
Phoenix and Staged Immigration Raids in L.A. Is This Normal?
What might have passed for a normal, if no-less-contested, act of immigration
policing during the Obama years has acquired newfound political significance
against the background of the Trump administration.
Is This Normal? is a new Slate series that will attempt to
determine which controversial Trump World behaviors are outrageously
unprecedented, which are outrageous but within the realm of what others have
gotten away with, and which shouldn't be considered outrageous at all.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/02/10/are_trump_s_immigration_actions_normal.html
April 6: Mother of four to be deported to
Mexico in sign of Trump policy shift ... Rushed removal of Maribel Trujillo –
who’s been in the US 15 years – shows agents are now more willing to pick up
individuals without a record of major crime
The mother of four American children, the youngest of whom is three years old,
has been picked up by federal agents at her home in Fairfield, Ohio, and taken
into detention ahead of imminent deportation back to her native
Mexico.
Maribel Trujillo has been told that her deportation is set for next Tuesday from
the US, where she has lived for the past 15 years. Her rushed removal is one of
the starkest examples yet of Donald Trump’s push to catch and deport
undocumented immigrants who previously were tolerated by the authorities as
law-abiding and peaceful members of society.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/06/ice-immigration-maribel-trujillo-deportation-mexico
May 20: What the Spike in Immigration
Arrests Might Mean for Detention Centers
With the nation’s courts backlogged, undocumented immigrants may be detained
longer than usual.
The results of his [Trump's] crackdown on unauthorized immigrants are becoming
clear: Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Department of Homeland
Security’s enforcement arm, announced Wednesday that immigration arrests
increased by nearly 40 percent compared to the same period last year.
With removal proceedings moving at a glacial pace, deportations have actually
dipped by 12 percent this year—while more undocumented immigrants are being
arrested, fewer are actually being removed. Detainees, therefore, continue to be
held in facilities across the country—facilities which may soon be overwhelmed.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/ice-arrests-increase-nearly-forty-percent/527427/
November 14: The country’s immigration
enforcement officers launched a website Tuesday demanding that President
Trump do more
to clean up their agency, saying he has left the Obama team in place and it’s
stymying his goal of enforcing laws on the books.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement supervisors in
Philadelphia
banned officers from wearing bulletproof vests during an operation in the
dangerous “badlands” section in the city’s north for fear of offending the
immigrant community, according to a new website, JICReport.com.
Meanwhile, officers in one Utah city are required to give city officials seven
days’ heads-up before arresting anyone — and by the time they go to make the
arrest, the immigrants they are targeting have taken off, the website says.
December 5: ICE deportation arrests soar
under Trump administration, drop in border arrests
The numbers released by the government Tuesday show that deportation officers
are taking Trump's call for an immigration crackdown to heart.
The federal government, in the most complete statistical snapshot of immigration
enforcement under President Donald Trump, say arrests by deportation officers
soared while Border Patrol arrests have plunged to a 45-year low.
February 26: Trump's Immigration Rules Have
Emboldened I.C.E. and Border Patrol Agents
“The discretion has come back to us; it’s up to us to
make decisions in the field.”
The White House and the Department of Homeland Security have turned
Donald Trump’s ominous campaign promises and sweeping executive
orders into a brutal reality, setting the framework for a far-reaching crackdown
on illegal immigration nationwide and mass deportations. For the agencies tasked
with immigration enforcement in the Trump era, it's the morale boost they were
looking for. Tens of thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border
Patrol agents scattered throughout the country are reporting feeling newly
galvanized; "We’re trusted again," as one I.C.E. veteran put it.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/02/donald-trump-immigration-ice-border-patrol-agents
March 8: President Donald Trump took a swipe
at Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Thursday over immigration, a day after his
attorney general did the same thing. Trump called her a "disgrace" for warning
undocumented immigrants ICE agents were planning a series of raids in
California.
Trump never mentioned Schaaf by name, but there was no doubt who he was talking
about and why.
"They [ICE] say 85 percent of them were criminals and the mayor went out and she
warned them all," Trump added.
Earlier Thursday, Schaaf responded to the criticism outside an International
Women's Day gathering in San Francisco.
In an interview, provided to ABC7 News by the mayor's public affairs office, she
says she's getting a lot of local support. "I am so appreciative of the Oakland
Community," said Schaaf. "I have obviously gotten much criticism, but much of it
is from outside the community."
March 8: President Trump amplified his
administration’s criticism of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf on Thursday, saying his
administration was “looking at” her warning to illegal immigrants about a
looming crackdown.
Schaaf, a Democrat, says she believes her Feb. 24
warning was “both legal and moral,” but the Justice Department is reviewing
the matter, amid claims she may have obstructed justice.
“How dare you? How dare you needlessly endanger the lives of law enforcement
just to promote a radical open borders agenda?” Sessions said of the mayor in a
Sacramento speech.
March 12: ICE spokesman in SF resigns and
slams Trump administration officials
James Schwab, a spokesman for the San Francisco Division of
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, has resigned, citing what he says are
falsehoods being spread by members of the Trump administration including
Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
"I just couldn't bear the burden -- continuing on as a representative of the
agency and charged with upholding integrity, knowing that information was
false," he told CNN on Monday.
March 12: Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf
warned her community that [a] raid was coming, drawing the ire of ICE acting
director
Thomas Homan and US attorney general
Jeff Sessions. They blamed Schaaf’s warning for ICE’s failure to apprehend
all of its targets—the raid resulted in around 200 arrests. “Those are 800
wanted criminals that are now at large, 800 wanted criminals that ICE will now
have to pursue by other means, with more difficulty, in dangerous situations,
all because of one irresponsible action,”
Sessions said during his visit last week to California.
“We were never going to pick up that many people. To say that 100 percent are
dangerous criminals on the street, or that those people weren’t picked up
because of the misguided actions of the mayor, is just wrong,” [James Schwab]
told the
San Francisco Chronicle ....
The mother and her two daughters who live here could disappear in minutes if
needed.
They're on the run from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"It was about a year ago," says one of the girls. "It was a regular day. My dad
dropped us off at school like usual." They wished him good luck, because on that
day, he was heading to a residency appointment with ICE.
It was a couple of months into the Trump administration and, despite
trepidation, there were few examples of nonviolent, nonfelon offenders being
deported.
So the girls said farewell to their father, expecting he'd pick them up after
school.
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 5: ICE raids Ohio lawn and garden
business, arrests 114 ... as part of the Trump administration's growing
crackdown on employers suspected of hiring illegal immigrants.
Those detained and separated from their families include people with little or
no criminal record who have lived in the US for years, such as Pablo
Villavicencio, a pizza deliveryman
arrested for being in the country illegally after he took food to a Brooklyn
military base.
In earlier years, ICE would have released many of these people on bond soon
after their arrest, allowing them to live with their families while awaiting
legal proceedings that can take years, Reuters reported.
September 6: ICE arrests and removals
continue to surge under Trump
Arrests of undocumented immigrants rose by 17 percent and removals were up by
about 9 percent between October 2017 and June 2018. Almost 120,000 undocumented
immigrants were arrested, compared with about 102,500 arrests during the same
period in 2017.
ICE arrested about 40,000 immigrants who did not have prior criminal records, up
from about 24,000 arrests in the same fiscal 2017 period. That follows previously
reported trends of ICE officers picking up more individuals who do not have
a record of criminal conviction.
September 7: In the battle for control of
Congress, President Donald Trump's weapon of choice is fear.
At a rally for Republican Senate nominee Matt Rosendale in Billings, Montana, on
Thursday night, the president warned his faithful that Democrats would raise
their taxes, take their guns, block his wall, abolish the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agency, open U.S. borders, end Social Security and cut
Medicare.
He's also warned supporters this summer that the outcome in November could spell
trouble for freedom of speech and religion and the First Amendment — and that if
the GOP loses, violence could follow.
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.
Created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks,
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal agency tasked
with finding and removing immigrants inside the border who are in violation of
immigration laws. In 15 years, the agency has ballooned into a giant and
controversial law enforcement body.
This episode explores how the agency has grown as lawmakers have failed to agree
on sensible immigration and border policy. And we hear directly from immigrants
whose lives have been upended by its enforcement activities.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/inside-power-ice
December 25: Christmas Day migrant drop off:
ICE leaves at least 100 migrants in city's downtown
The migrants were dropped off in the afternoon and were being temporarily housed
at the former Rock House Cafe and Gallery, 400 W Overland Ave.,
said Dylan Corbett, executive director of the Hope Border Institute.
"ICE gave us a heads up about an hour or two ago that we were going to get 200
folks Downtown," Corbett said. "This group right now is about 100, so we don't
know if we are going to get another 100 or if this is it for the day."
