#TrumpRaids are coming: ICE raids and mass deportations as early as Sunday in 10 U.S. cities – Los Angeles and New York City to resist “immoral and unconscionable act by a president hellbent on dividing our country”
By Xeni Jardin
21 June 2019
(BoingBoing) – Here are the 10 U.S. cities where ICE, CBP, DHS, and other agencies plan to execute mass raids.
Immigration agents will target Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, and San Francisco this weekend, congressional and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sources have told the Miami Herald.
Earlier this week, a Trump administration official confirmed that ICE will specifically target for deportation as many as 1 million people “who have been issued final deportation orders by federal judges yet remain at large in the country.”
Among those to be targeted first, sources said: minors who came into the U.S. without their parents and have since turned 18; people who were ordered removed in absentia; and people who missed a court hearing and did not respond to letters mailed to their homes by the Department of Justice.
Also targeted: families on the so-called rocket docket, a slate of cases fast-tracked for deportation by the Justice Department. […]
People rounded up for deportation will be held at family detention centers. During Lucero’s briefing, he said if there were to be U.S. citizen children involved, a parent or guardian would be issued an ankle monitor while they made arrangements on where the child will stay as deportation proceedings move forward.
This is America.
Miami is expected to be one of the cities first targeted by DHS/ICE/CBP raids which may commence as soon as this Sunday, June 23, 2019.
If you’re in Southern Florida, call the FLIC Immigrant hotline 1-888-600-5762 to report raids/checkpoints.
If you or your family or others you know are affected, know the law and your rights.
Individuals with questions about the upcoming ICE raids may call the Florida Immigrant Coalition hotline: 1-800-600-5763. Se habla Español, y es una llamada gratis.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS:
✔️ If ICE comes to your house, don’t open the door
✔️ Stay silent
✔️ Don’t give personal information
✔️ Make a plan for you and your family
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#TrumpRaids are coming: ICE raids and mass deportations as early as Sunday in these 10 cities
ICE raids targeting migrant families slated to start Sunday in major U.S. cities
By Nick Miroff
21 June 2019
(The Washington Post) – President Trump has directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to conduct a mass roundup of migrant families that have received deportation orders, an operation that is likely to begin with predawn raids in major U.S. cities on Sunday, according to three U.S. officials with knowledge of the plans.
The “family op,” as it is referred to at ICE and the Department of Homeland Security, is slated to target up to 2,000 families in as many as 10 U.S. cities, including Houston, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and other major immigration destinations, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the law enforcement operation.
Acting DHS secretary Kevin McAleenan has been urging ICE, an agency within his department, to conduct a narrower, more targeted operation that would seek to detain a group of about 150 families that were provided with attorneys but dropped out of the legal process and absconded.
McAleenan has warned that an indiscriminate operation to arrest migrants in their homes and at work sites risks separating children from their parents in cases where the children are at day care, summer camp or friend’s houses. He also has maintained that ICE should not devote major resources to carrying out a mass interior sweep while telling lawmakers it needs emergency funding to address the crisis at the U.S. border.
Trump has been determined to go forward with the family operation after tweeting Monday that the immigration raids were coming next week as a first step toward his pledge for “millions” of deportations. The White House has been in direct communication with acting ICE director Mark Morgan and other ICE officials, circumventing McAleenan, three officials said. […]
As news of the looming raids reached the Democratic-run cities on the ICE list, some local and state officials blasted the Trump administration and said they would not provide police support.
The Los Angeles Police Department released a statement Friday saying LAPD is aware of upcoming ICE actions “beginning this Sunday,” that would be directed toward individuals who have been issued final deportation orders, and LAPD Chief Michel Moore told reporters Friday that ICE has 140 targets in the area.
“The Department is not participating or assisting in any of these enforcement actions,” the LAPD statement said. “The Department has reached out to various community stakeholders regarding the reported ICE enforcement actions, reiterating that members of this Department will not be participating. We are committed to protecting the public through meaningful relationship building and community partnerships.”
New York Attorney General Letitia James assailed Trump’s plan for mass deportation raids, saying that the president’s “use of migrant families and asylum seekers as political punching bags is a despicable act of racism and xenophobia that is antithetical to our basic human values.”
“This is an immoral and unconscionable act by a president and an administration hellbent on dividing our country, and, as New York’s top law enforcement officer, I can assure New Yorkers we will do everything in our power to fight back against these inhumane policies,” James said in a statement. [more]
ICE raids targeting migrant families slated to start Sunday in major U.S. cities
They missed there court date on purpose, to leech off American taxpayers, deport all of them. When law starts only applying to citizens and they watch these illegal alien leeches get off free, you will see a civil war……Go back and fix your messed up country
Hi cd, thanks for dropping in to Desdemona. I think you missed the point: Desdemona covers issues related to immigration because by the end of the century, abrupt climate change will drive something like a billion people out of the tropics. Climate migrants will move northward, because most of the land area is that way. No governments are prepared for the massive refugee flows that are coming, and Desdemona expects that official reactions will be increasingly brutal. And as revealed over the weekend, even the U.S. will run horrific internment camps for refugees. Every person of conscience must resist the official impulse to crack down and punish these most vulnerable people, but Des fears that humanity nevertheless is charging headlong into a Children of Men scenario.