To effect removal, most families are first being transported to one of ICE’s family residential centres for temporary processing before being issued travel documents and boarding a return flight to their home countries, he said. Now, some of them are facing deportation.
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Now, Obama’s plan is blocked in federal court, and Martinez’s family is again fearful of a late-night knock at the door from ICE agents. The fact that children and families were now being sought was inspiring some in the immigrant rights community to express frustrations with their traditional allies in the Democratic party.
Immigration experts told CBS46 News they believe the number of immigrants that could end up being deported by these raids in Georgia are in the thousands.
Morales let them in.
Many immigrants are unaware that they can turn officials away, he and other advocates said.
“ICE could have taken her into custody in far less frightening and invasive methods than sending seven armed ICE agents to her home to detain the mother and her four children”, CARA said in a news release.
A spokesman said the agency doesn’t comment on specific cases, but acknowledged the arrest occurred at the time of the operation.
The 2016 ICE raids are the first targeted enforcement operations of their kind since the George W. Bush administration targeting factories and meatpacking plants, as the WSJ observes.
DHS secretary Jeh Johnson had long urged the White House to increase deportations, but Administration officials debated long and hard among themselves before giving him a green light.
“As I have said repeatedly, our borders are not open to illegal migration; if you come here illegally, we will send you back consistent with our laws and values”, Johnson said. “I have said publicly for months that individuals who constitute enforcement priorities, including families and unaccompanied children, will be removed”, he said.
Cecilia Wang, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, calls the ICE sweeps an elaborate and unjust show.
Starting Friday in Boston, advocates are planning forums to educate immigrants about their rights in case of a raid. He’s the executive director of the advocacy group RAICES.
Some advocates said they fear that Obama is playing politics, since the popularity of the leading GOP presidential candidate, Donald Trump, rose after he advocated deporting all illegal immigrants.
Fleeing violence, large numbers of Central American immigrants have been seeking refuge in the United States in the last couple of years.
“What they are doing is, they are showing up to a house saying we have an order to remove you from the United States”, Renteria said. “Many of these mothers and children had no lawyers because they could not afford them”. “Without counsel, traumatized refugees don’t understand what is happening in court and can not get their legitimate asylum claims heard”. Then they called her and said they were actually there because her ankle monitor was broken, so she opened the door.
Guatemala’s foreign ministry warned people not to be fooled.
“With the Supreme Court poised to take up the case, the administration’s argument about focusing on deportation priorities rings more true if they are really focusing on their priorities”, Rosenblum said, noting that the recently arrived families were “a named priority”.
Benito was joined by representatives from the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), Organized Communities Against Deportations and other groups.
“There was absolutely nothing”, he said, adding that a top federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement official told him nobody was arrested in New England.
The board’s temporary stay, however, might mean some of these families still do have legitimate claims to asylum, which by law means they can not be prosecuted for entering the country illegally while they apply for that status. “It’s not a matter simply of economic necessity, but a matter of life or death for numerous families that we see and speak to”.
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Their lawyer has been trying to fight it.
