Trump is targeting up to 8 million people for deportation

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SOURCE: LOS ANGELES TIMES

URL: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-deportations-20170204-story.html

by Brian Bennett


When President Trump ordered a vast overhaul of immigration law enforcement during his first week in office, he stripped away most restrictions on who should be deported, opening the door for roundups and detentions on a scale not seen in nearly a decade.

Up to 8 million people in the country illegally could be considered priorities for deportation, according to calculations by the Los Angeles Times. They were based on interviews with experts who studied the order and two internal documents that signal immigration officials are taking an expansive view of Trump’s directive.

Far from targeting only “bad hombres,” as Trump has said repeatedly, his new order allows immigration agents to detain nearly anyone they come in contact with who has crossed the border illegally. People could be booked into custody for using food stamps or if their child receives free school lunches.

The deportation targets are a much larger group than those swept up in the travel bans that sowed chaos at airports and seized public attention over the past week. Fewer than 1 million people came to the U.S. over the past decade from the seven countries from which most visitors are temporarily blocked.

Deportations of this scale, which has not been publicly totaled before, could have widely felt consequences: Families would be separated. Businesses catering to immigrant customers may be shuttered. Crops could be left to rot, unpicked, as agricultural and other industries that rely on immigrant workforces face labor shortages. U.S. relations could be strained with countries that stand to receive an influx of deported people, particularly in Latin America. Even the Social Security system, which many immigrants working illegally pay into under fake identification numbers, would take a hit.

The new instructions represent a wide expansion of President Obama’s focus on deporting only recent arrivals, repeat immigration violators and people with multiple criminal violations. Under the Obama administration, only about 1.4 million people were considered priorities for removal.

“We are going back to enforcement chaos — they are going to give lip service to going after criminals, but they really are going to round up everybody they can get their hands on,” said David Leopold, a former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Assn. and an immigration lawyer for more than two decades.

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[Norm Lenhart]

Be still my beating heart.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

"allows immigration agents to detain nearly anyone they come in contact with who has crossed the border illegally"

This sentence could well be the ultimate right/left litmus test.  Both sides will find it equally appalling, but it completely different ways.

I was drunk the day my mama got out of prison.

[Bigun]

"allows immigration agents to detain nearly anyone they come in contact with who has crossed the border illegally"

DAMN! What a novel idea!  Wonder why no one thought of that before?

[Norm Lenhart]

DAMN! What a novel idea!  Wonder why no one thought of that before?

I'm good with arresting everyone in the chain from Coyotes to employers to landlords to schools. Do that a few times and there won't be an illegal alien issue in America.

[Bigun]

I'm good with arresting everyone in the chain from Coyotes to employers to landlords to schools. Do that a few times and there won't be an illegal alien issue in America.

You are singing off my sheet of music Norm!  Been preaching that for years now!  And the best part will be that WE didn't have to deport very many at all!

[Norm Lenhart]

You are singing off my sheet of music Norm!  Been preaching that for years now!  And the best part will be that WE didn't have to deport very many at all!

Seems simple. Every link in that chain is guilty of aiding and abetting, human trafficing, various forms of economic fraud...

Add all that up and each violator is looking at about 50+ years in Club fed. Per illegal. Throw the book at them and as part of their sentence, make them watch a video of the illegal they assisted being released at the border (Mexican side while they spend a few decades getting to know Bubba and clutching their soap tightly in the shower.

that would suck for those renting to families of them. Especially with the child trafficing provisions.

[truth_seeker]

Lost Angeles Times.

[MajorClay]

Crops could be left to rot, unpicked, as agricultural and other industries that rely on immigrant workforces face labor shortages.

Didn't we read about this in "A Day Without A Mexican?"