They are being taken to the family detention center in Karnes County and from there, sent back to their homes in Central America. Once there, they will be processed for deportation.
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“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”.
Morales let them in. Her sister refused to open the door and the agents left, he said. “A lot of them don’t even want to leave the house at this point”, he said.
Now, days later, he’s still trying to figure out the details of their fate.
(CNN)The Obama administration is planning a series of ICE raids beginning in January to ferret out and deport thousands of Central American immigrants who entered the United States in 2014 after fleeing rampant violence in their home countries, according to The Washington Post.
“In El Salvador, there’s a lot of crime, and that’s why families and young people are immigrating”, she said through a translator.
A spokesman said the agency doesn’t comment on specific cases, but acknowledged the arrest occurred at the time of the operation.
The DHS statement on the raids acknowledged that they were being criticized from different sides of the immigration issue.
Newsradio 1200 WOAI reported last week, and Homeland Security confirmed on Monday, that it is in the process of arresting and deporting children and children with families who entered the USA, mainly through Texas, in the summer of 2014, applied for asylum, and their applications were denied. “I have said publicly for months that individuals who constitute enforcement priorities, including families and unaccompanied children, will be removed”.
“This should come as no surprise”. Those targeted had been issued final orders of removal by immigration courts and had exhausted other legal remedies, including claims for asylum.
More than eight years after federal agents swept through Fair Haven snatching undocumented immigrants from their homes, New Haven is bracing for a possible repeat.
The initiative would also bar release of immigrants in the country without legal permission if federal immigration authorities request a hold.
The raids have stirred fear among immigrants nationwide, who have been contacting advocates for advice on what to do if ICE agents come knocking. “When this happened during the Bush presidency, then-candidate Obama denounced it. The fact that it is happening now under a President Obama is outrageous”.
If the raids take place, the President would appear to be reacting – actually overreacting – to a recent spike in the migration of Central American families and unaccompanied children to the United States. “These raids are a scare tactic to deter other families fleeing violence in Central America from coming to the United States”, Cecillia Wang, director of the ACLU’s immigrants’ Rights Project, said in a statement. “Without counsel, traumatized refugees don’t understand what is happening in court and can not get their legitimate asylum claims heard”.
It advised Guatemalans in the US that they need not open their doors to immigration agents unless the officers have a warrant signed by a judge.
Guatemala’s foreign ministry warned people not to be fooled.
The latest actions affect only a fraction of the more than 100,000 Central American family members, mostly mothers with children, who crossed into the US during an immigration surge that began in the spring of 2014.
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