During fiscal year 2015, which ended September 30, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out 235,413 migratory operations, of which 227,038 were deportations and 8,375 were undocumented persons who voluntarily returned to their own countries.
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JJ Abrams regrets not directing eighth ‘Star Wars’ film
Boyega said that he’s excited to start filming Episode VIII “in a few weeks in London” when he addressed a crowd there. In a lot of ways, the vague nature of The Force Awakens has given everyone a lot to talk about for the next two years.
One of Trump’s signature promises is that he will orchestrate the mass deportation of every person living in the USA illegally – a number estimated to be about 12 million.
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Abrams’ film is to show, by contrast, how the direction of the previous films was elegant, balanced and above all appropriate. One key scene that many have been asking about is Maz handing a lightsaber to Leia, as seen in the trailers for the film.
While it is common to refer to people fleeing violence in Central America as refugees, as O’Malley did, the term has a specific legal meaning that includes criteria many of them simply do not meet.
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But those who have pushed for tighter border security believe the raids won’t do much of anything.
As we’ve reported, the Obama administration has been scorned by both sides of the aisle when it comes to its efforts on immigration.
At the peak of the so-called border surge in the summer of 2014, more than 10,000 Central American minors entered the US illegally every month.
The Washington Post first reported on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security was considering launching the crackdown in January. If you have photogenic raids on a few dozen illegal families and that’s the end of it, it’s just for show. “These abysmal deportation numbers are the result of deliberate policy choices made by President Obama to dismantle immigration enforcement, all the while telling Congress and the public that he was accomplishing “record” deportations”.
Hillary Clinton campaign spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said in a statement that the former Secretary of State “has real concerns” about the reports.
“They’re sending people who have a lot of problems”, Trump said of illegal immigration at the time. Republicans say President Obama can’t be trusted to secure the border and the National Council of La Raza famously dubbed Obama the nation’s “deporter-in-chief”.
8,246 people wanted for serious crimes were arrested trying to enter or exit the U.S.in 2014.
The families do not have the same due process as unaccompanied children detained at the border, according to Dallas-based immigration attorney Eric Cedillo. “So, we don’t want to send a message that is contrary to our laws or will encourage more children to make that unsafe journey”, she said then. “I think it’s a reflection of the economy in Mexico and Latin America, that there are more jobs and opportunities for people there”, he tells KTRH.
A federal judge ruled this year that immigration officials must quickly release families with children from detention centers, posing a further challenge to the administration’s efforts to curb the flow.
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The administration has said it is complying with the ruling, but it has also filed an appeal with a federal appeals court, and officials said the decision left them feeling hamstrung.
