“Almost Everyone in U.S. Without Papers Now Priority for Deportation”

Right Now in Trump Administration – Easy to Lose Count

(so it seems almost daily)

The latest news with this headlines has rattled a lot of undocumented people: 

“Trump’s immigration crackdown and detention policy out for implementation.” 

Okay, how do we measure any incompetence? Let’s start with the new DHS policy implementation memos, which in essence say in part:

1.  Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will treat most unauthorized immigrants currently in the U.S. as “priorities” for deportation.

2.  The government will dramatically increase its capacity to detain immigrants, and  should detain nearly all immigrants caught near the U.S. (Southern) border.

3.  That ICE shall work aggressively and will deputize local law enforcement to act as Federal agents who can arrest unauthorized immigrants.

4.  Make it easier to deport children who come to the U.S. alone to reunite with their parents — or parents they are reuniting with.

Basically keeps, or so they say they will keep, the promises made under DACA (the so-called “Dreamer” law) – but, we’ll have to wait and see how that plays out. Allow the kids to stay, but boot out Mom and Dad … nice…!!! (Or like this sick example).

Most of the policies laid out in the memos won’t change overnight. It’s now the job of agencies, including ICE, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), to do another round of interpretation and implementation based on these new memos.

(I Note: What will be people’s initial ID be based on: (1) How they look, (2) their ethnicity, (3) how they dress or hang out, or (4) their accent or speech?)

Highlights and What Could be Next?

1.  “Papers, show me your papers.”

2.  So, what is next: Tattoos on forearms with a control number?

3.  Then trains or buses to move them to a “detention center” where they will be held or “concentrated” in one area until they are shipped out of the U.S. and back to the country of their origin, and of course at tax payer’s expense (unless Trump will get their native countries to reimburse us like Mexico for the wall, um?).

Assume they have a job in the U.S. – some for years or longer. What happens to that job once they are yanked from it? What about their children. Say they have 2 or 3 or more with some brought here as infants or even born here? That’s a legal question for sure (i.e., the 14^th Amendment – oops).

Maybe the employers will follow this Trump example that I posted about earlier also as seen below and in this link:

Trump won approval in December 2016 to hire 77 foreign workers at his Mar-a-Lago resort and Jupiter golf course through the H-2B visa program, according to a review of data from the U. S. Department of Labor (DOL).

CNN reported July 2016 that Trump companies employed at least 1,256 foreign workers — most from Romania and South Africa over the past 15 years. His companies applied to hire 263 foreign workers even after Trump launched his presidential campaign in which he railed against the loss of U.S. jobs to foreign workers. (How ironic is that and what do we call that? Oh, yeah con-man hypocrisy).

I Note: Some of those new Trump employees will receive less pay than they did the year before from the newly minted deal maker-in-chief for example: Labor records show that 25 cooks hired at Trump’s Palm Beach County properties will earn $12.74 an hour, down from $13.01 an hour the year before. Some 15 house keepers and 37 wait staff, however, will see a modest raises.

They will earn $10.17 an hour and $11.13 an hour, respectively, up from $10.07 an hour and $10.99 an hour last year.

A big concern for many who are asylum-seekers. They can be released from detention if they can meet two tests:

(1) They have to prove to an asylum officer that they have a “credible fear” of persecution.

(2) They then must prove to an ICE agent that they are who they say they are and aren’t a security risk.

Depending on how those standards are set, and how ICE agents decide to implement them, that could result in the detention of tens of thousands of children and families?  Overall, immigrants in the detention centers will now have a much harder time getting a fair hearing, let alone getting a lawyer, or even having time to make their case. That means the government is more likely to send a person who should have qualified for asylum back to her home country, thus possibly putting them in mortal danger.

(I note: It is a violation of international law for any country to return a person or persons to places they have escaped where they are or say they are not safe or fear for their lives and safety).

We have not the first or last of this. Stay tuned for sure.