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12th February 2017, 11:01 PM | #201 |
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Theres no evidence that deportation of US citizens is increasing. That is the area of concern, not deportation of non-citizens who aren't supposed to be here.
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Re checking on increased deportations, there are mixed news reports but this one is fairly specific:
Under Trump order, immigration agents raid 'target-rich' communities in Texas, elsewhere We do know the mother of two who checked in for the 8th year in a row was deported when the previous seven years she was not. |
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About the mother? Of course not, it was discussed in multiple posts up-thread.
The CA legislator said he was given information it was business as usual then found out it wasn't. How is you you read that link and missed the deportation of the mother? |
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She was given a removal order in 2013 and then granted a stay. There is no obligation to keep granting stays.
Look, I don't necessarily agree that in this particular case she should have been deported. I can acknowledge some nuance in interpretation and following the letter of the law. She should have been way down on the list. But the fact of the matter is she was on the list and she knew it. If someone is on the list for arrest because he failed to pay a speeding ticket, I think we all agree that he should be low priority for arrest. If he gets pulled over and the office exercises discretion and doesn't arrest him, he got lucky. If he gets arrested one time, that sucks but he did have a warrant out. Same kind of situation here.
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This is not really a criticism but potentially it is added context. Many civil rights movements started with lawsuits, and those lawsuits involved carefully vetted plaintiffs. This mom fits the general profile. Obviously something changed in the interim - Trump was elected president. Her felony was of the lowest order, something judges can reduce to misdemeanors and even set aside if circumstances warrant. She has U.S. citizen kids and a husband who is allowed to stay because he did not have a record.
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ICE agents mistakenly try to grab Latino county worker near courthouse
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"This is you in this picture, a known illegal alien!", shows random picture of a Latino.
This is the "Oops, I transposed the digits of your license plate" lie for a different scenario. |
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These laws are so awful one could almost imagine the challenge being made that they result in prior restraint of merely existing.
I remember one of the many weak excuses for a traffic stop a few years ago was "you match the description of someone we have warrants on." Well, if I take the entire set of "people the police have warrants on", my best description of what to look for seems to be "anything vaguely humanoid." I'll bet not a single one of us wouldn't feel a moment of paranoia if we flipped through a warrant list and eventually came upon a familiar-looking height/build/eye/hair/ethnicity description. |
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Something like that happened with my friends just after the Oklahoma City Bombing. When they published the police sketches of the two suspects, essentially everyone who knew them both said, "Hey, that's Liam and Danny!" 2-for-2 with the most wanted guys in the US at the time. Lucky for them they were in Canada... |
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Interesting find. I couldn't make out the audio so I started trying to find some follow-up reporting or something. Found this instead. Interested in learning more.
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This just highlights the fact that the problem is not Trump. The problem is the ******** who support him.
These ICE agents didn't become racist ******** when Trump was elected. His election just (made them think it) allowed them to act out their racism. Decent people would have found a million ways to not let this happen. But these douchewads went out of their way, lying and doctoring and inventing evidence in order to treat this guy like ****. Why did they do it? Because they thought they could. It was only the previous rules against treating people like **** that prevented them from doing it. Yeah, ultimately Trump is the one who opened the gates, but the animals were already wild and just needed an excuse. |
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