LOGK FB Post re Trump ICE Raids
"NATIONWIDE ICE IMMIGRATION RAIDS..."
"ICE issuing fines to immigrants who have taken sanctuary in churches..."
Is this what America stands for?
Or does it stand for ideals enshrined in Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus"*?
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
So is there a better, most just way to handle the current immigration "crisis"?
As a former City of Philadelphia police officer, I'm all for locking up and deporting criminal aliens, especially violent felons.
I'm also for an effective illegal immigration control policy which discourages blatant violation of our immigration laws, including attempts to ignore or circumvent valid non-appealable denials of applications for asylum or permanent residence and related deportation orders.
But what about law-abiding (aside from the immigration violations) and hard working illegal immigrants and their minor children who would contribute positively to their communities and our country if they were allowed to legalize their presence in the U.S.?
Who would you rather see in your neighborhood? Hard working law-abiding illegal immigrants (out of immigration status) working for legitimate tax-paying U.S. businesses or voluntarily unemployed Americans with criminal records (even ongoing activities), substance addiction problems (drugs/alcohol) and/or abusing public assistance?
Obviously, for various reasons, including National Security, we cannot have uncontrolled immigration or porous unsecured borders.
So how do we (a) encourage the immigration (and, if necessary, prevent the deportation) of hard-working, law-abiding migrants with the rights skills & work ethic that will help America stay competitive in today's global economy, while (b) keeping our borders secure without turning away a reasonable number of legitimate asylum seekers fleeing political & religious persecution in their home countries and (c) not compromising our morals and/or faith, namely the principles of brotherly love, compassion and mercy?
What do you think?
But before you comment, please read the rest of The Law Offices of Gregory Krasovsky post (and the articles referenced therein) at:
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2434625310108659
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"ICE raids should be unannounced, widespread, and ongoing"
Is this what America stands for?
Or does it stand for ideals enshrined in Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus"*?
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Is there a better, most just way to handle the current immigration "crisis"?
What do you think?
But before you comment, please read the rest of The Law Offices of Gregory Krasovsky post (and the articles referenced therein) at:
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2434625310108659
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Today, on Sunday, July 14, 2019, ICE is scheduled to begin mass detention and deportation of illegal aliens -- a campaign which will inevitably end up punishing hundreds of thousands of children.
According to one article, "The cities where raids will take place are said to be Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco" (see below).
Is this what America stands for?
Is there a better, most just way to handle the current immigration "crisis"?
What do you think?
But before you comment, please read the rest of The Law Offices of Gregory Krasovsky post (and the articles referenced therein) at:
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2434625310108659
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Today, on Sunday, July 14, 2019, ICE is scheduled to begin mass detention and deportation of illegal aliens -- a campaign which will inevitably end up punishing hundreds of thousands of children.
According to one article, "The cities where raids will take place are said to be Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco" (see below).
Is this what America stands for?
Or does it stand for ideals enshrined in Emma Lazarus' poem "The New Colossus"*?
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
*"The New Colossus" is a sonnet that American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887) wrote in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World).
In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus
Are we, as Americans, willing to psychologically punish, torture and even maim for life innocent children, just because their parents are illegal aliens, by
- separating them from their asylum seeking parents?
- detaining them in facilities that may not be good enough to house convicted adult criminals?
- giving them up for adoption against the will of parents who're not drug addicts, alcoholics or dangerous criminals?
What do you think?
Regardless,
- If you know someone who's having immigration issues -- including parents with minor children (even if the children are U.S. citizens!),
- If you are in the United States unlawfully (illegal immigration status), especially with minor children,
- If your company is or may be employing illegal aliens,
- If you are considering coming to or staying in the United States (e.g. living, working, going to school) and you're concerned about potential violation of U.S. immigration laws,
Then please talk to an experienced and competent immigration law attorney ASAP for legal advice, protection and to minimize any potential civil, administrative and criminal liability!
If you have or are harboring and/or providing material support to an illegal alien, please be aware that under certain circumstances, this can lead to federal criminal charges and confiscation of your property (8 U.S. Code § 1324)
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ICE has begun raids to round up undocumented immigrants, official says
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
JULY 14, 2019 - 10:19 AM
(CNN) -- Immigration authorities have begun conducting raids, a senior administration official said Sunday, in an operation expected to target about 2,000 undocumented immigrants ordered by courts to be removed from the country.
The raids, which will focus on recent arrivals to the country, are slated for Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco, a senior immigration official said. New Orleans is also on the list, but the city tweeted last week that US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement said it would suspend operations through the weekend in areas hit by Tropical Storm Barry.
Acting US Citizenship and Immigration Services director Ken Cuccinelli took issue with referring to the targets of the raids as undocumented.
"They're not undocumented. They've got a court order on a piece of paper -- federal order -- that says they've gotten due process, and (there are) over a million people with removal orders. That's the pool that ICE is drawing from," he told CNN.
ICE will not comment on operational details of the raids, Cuccinelli said, adding that the priority will be apprehending violent criminals and aggravated felons. ICE agents are not "utilizing" allegations of crossing the border illegally, a misdemeanor, as cause for arrest in the raids, he said.
Asked if children would be separated from their parents, Cuccinelli said that information constituted an operational detail. But he did say families are among the 1 million people facing removal orders.
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ICE is expected to begin rounding up undocumented immigrants in nine US cities today
By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN
Updated 1529 GMT (2329 HKT) July 14, 2019
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/14/politics/ice-raids-undocumented-immigrants/index.html
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ICE raids: what we know
Immigrant rights advocates said ICE got off to a quiet start on expected raids Sunday morning.
By Gabriela Resto-Montero Jul 14, 2019, 10:40am EDT
ICE plans to sweep major cities on Sunday in a series of raids as part of an effort to detain 2,000 immigrants who have been issued final orders of removal.
The raids were originally scheduled for June at President Donald Trump’s request; however, the president postponed them shortly before they were set to begin to give Congress time to craft immigration reform legislation. Trump threatened to move forward with the raids if the legislative branch failed to make progress within two weeks.
That deadline has now passed, and ICE officials announced last week that the agency would raid cities including Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco beginning Sunday. Because of Tropical Storm Barry, the raids on New Orleans and Houston will reportedly be postponed.
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Fear of ICE raids leads some U.S. citizens to carry their passports
"I’ve been carrying a passport since the day [Trump] was elected," said the American spokesman for a Latino organization.
Updated July 14, 2019, 4:45 PM GMT+3
By Dennis Romero
With immigration raids expected to begin Sunday in at least nine major cities, some U.S. citizens are taking precautions, including carrying their American passports at all times, to avoid being mistakenly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
The wary Americans, often Latinos, said they don't want to get swept up in the planned roundups announced by President Donald Trump.
"I was born in this country," said David Cruz, communications director for the League of United Latin American Citizens. "I’m a third-generation Texan. I’ve been carrying a passport since the day he was elected."
Passports, used by international travelers to return to the United States, are legal proof of citizenship.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fear-ice-raids-leads-some-u-s-citizens-carry-their-n1029621
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Thousands Are Targeted as ICE Prepares to Raid Undocumented Migrant Families
By Caitlin Dickerson and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
July 11, 2019
Nationwide raids to arrest thousands of members of undocumented families have been scheduled to begin Sunday, according to two current and one former homeland security officials, moving forward with a rapidly changing operation, the final details of which remain in flux.
The operation, backed by President Trump, had been postponed, partly because of resistance among officials at his own immigration agency.
The raids, which will be conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over multiple days, will include “collateral” deportations, according to the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the preliminary stage of the operation.
In those deportations, the authorities might detain immigrants who happened to be on the scene, even though they were not targets of the raids.
When possible, family members who are arrested together will be held in family detention centers in Texas and Pennsylvania.
But because of space limitations, some might end up staying in hotel rooms until their travel documents can be prepared. ICE’s goal is to deport the families as quickly as possible.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/us/politics/ice-families-deport.html
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ICE Is Dangerously Inaccurate
Even American citizens are not immune from immigration raids.
By Darlena Cunha
Ms. Cunha is a freelance journalist and an adjunct professor at the University of Florida.
July 12, 2019
Tracy Nuetzi, a Trump voter and resident of Florida, was an American citizen for 60 years, until the country decided she wasn’t.
“I thought, ‘This is a mistake, this must be a mistake,’” she said. Ms. Nuetzi spent nearly a year, from December 2017 to November 2018, trying to prove she was an American, and not liable to be arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE is not, of course, just a run-of-the-mill government bureaucracy doing necessary work to keep our borders intact. Under President Trump, a wildly invigorated ICE has become an American nightmare, nothing less than the main thrust of an attempt to institutionalize racism against a scapegoated minority — undocumented, nonvoting, mostly voiceless brown people.
ICE is Trump’s main instrument for the dirty work of trying to make America whiter again, without regard for family values, due process, human rights or even plain human decency.
The agency has been a problem for decades, but American citizens often ignore it, content in the belief that their citizenship will prevent them from ICE, deportation, detention without representation and all those horrific stories written about other people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/12/opinion/ice-raids.html
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Trump’s Cruel Deportation Machine Set to Begin Raids
TD ORIGINALS
Ilana Novick
Blogger / Editorial Assistant
JUL 11, 2019
President Trump announced on June 22 via Twitter that he was postponing planned nationwide Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids to arrest and deport undocumented immigrant families.
The delay was an attempt to pressure congressional Democrats into making changes to asylum laws. Despite Congress passing a bill that will send $4.5 billion to the agencies that oversee immigration, as the Trump administration also wanted, the raids are back on and set to start Sunday, The New York Times reported Thursday.
In June, ICE agents had planned the raids in ten cities across the country, targeting 2,000 families, in what the Times described as “a show of force intended to demonstrate their strict enforcement of immigration laws.”
...
This time, ICE still plans to target approximately 2,000 families, and agents will conduct what they call “collateral” deportations, which means, as ICE officials told the Times, they “might detain immigrants who [happen] to be on the scene, even though they were not targets of the raids.”
There’s no guarantee that families will stay together or even that detention centers will have room for them.
As Times writers Caitlin Dickerson and Zolan Kanno-Youngs explain, “When possible, family members who are arrested together will be held in family detention centers in Texas and Pennsylvania. But because of space limitations, some might end up staying in hotel rooms until their travel documents can be prepared.
ICE’s goal is to deport the families as quickly as possible.”
In addition to backlash from immigration activists and elected officials, President Trump faced opposition to the planned raids from his own Department of Homeland Security, the agency that oversees ICE.
As Dickerson and Kanno-Youngs write, “agents have expressed apprehensions about arresting babies and young children.” Plus, because word of the raids have already spread, migrants may already have made arrangements to be somewhere other than the address ICE has for them. Organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union have also educated immigrants on their right not to open the door or answer questions unless the agents have warrants signed by a judge.
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trumps-cruel-deportation-machine-set-to-begin-raids/
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Trump says ICE raids to start Sunday, emphasizing purge of criminal immigrants
By Abigail Hauslohner, Maria Sacchetti and Colby Itkowitz
July 12 at 4:05 PM
President Trump said Friday that immigration authorities plan to begin carrying out mass arrests of migrants Sunday, an announcement that comes after weeks of uncertainty and turmoil within his administration over the use of aggressive enforcement tactics aimed at curtailing migration levels at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump and administration officials had previously said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was planning an operation to target thousands of migrant families that have received final deportation orders, a carefully coordinated push that was to focus on up to 10 cities across the country.
While it was unclear if Trump was referring Friday to the planned “family op” or another ICE enforcement wave, a former Department of Homeland Security official with knowledge of the operation said the raids will target about 2,000 families in as many as 10 cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston.
“It starts on Sunday, and they’re going to take people out and take them back to their countries, or they’re going to take criminals and put them in prison or put them in prison in the countries they came from,” Trump told reporters in Washington as he boarded Marine One.
“We are really specifically looking for bad players, but we’re also looking for people who came into our country not through a process, they just walked over a line, and they have to leave.”
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AS TRUMP ANNOUNCES MASS IMMIGRATION RAID, DOCUMENTS SHOW HOW ICE USES ARREST QUOTAS
Maryam Saleh
July 3 2019, 7:22 p.m.
AS U.S. IMMIGRATION and Customs Enforcement, at the behest of President Donald Trump, plans mass raids following the July Fourth holiday, newly released documents shed light on the tactics the agency employs during such operations.
The documents, released Wednesday by the immigrant rights groups Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Detention Watch Network, show that ICE officials are building arrest target lists for mass raids to meet specific numbers, even as the agency continues to internally and publicly stress a “public safety” rationale for immigration arrests.
Most of the documents relate to a planned September 2017 ICE operation that was meant to target 8,400 noncitizens; ICE called off the raid after details were leaked to the media. But the documents also include information on five other ICE operations with similar objectives, pointing to how the agency repeatedly recycles its logistical plans.
https://theintercept.com/2019/07/03/ice-raids-arrest-quotas/
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Philadelphia's ICE Office is one of the nation's most aggressive, according to report
By Gordon Ho
04/17/18 11:22pm
Philadelphia’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office has been arresting more undocumented immigrants without criminal convictions than any other place in the country, according to an investigation by Pro Publica and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
In 2017, though the undocumented population in Pennsylvania ranked 16th in the nation, the ICE in Philadelphia was one of the nation’s most forceful agencies in apprehending undocumented immigrants, according to the investigation.
Reporters analyzed unpublished data from ICE, finding that 64 percent of immigrants arrested in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Delaware didn’t have criminal convictions. The national figure, on the other hand, is 38 percent.
The investigation also found that cases in Pennsylvania’s immigration courts have increased dramatically. Until last month, 11,643 cases were pending, showing a 62 percent increase compared to 2016.
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Know Your Rights: How Immigrant Rights Activists Are Preparing for Looming ICE Deportation Raids
JULY 12, 2019
Immigrant communities across the country and their allies are preparing for nationwide raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to begin Sunday that will target undocumented members of immigrant families in at least nine major cities.
The cities where raids will take place are said to be Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco.
New Orleans had been on the list, but the city announced this weekend that ICE was temporarily postponing the raids due to Tropical Storm Barry.
We speak with a roundtable of immigrants’ rights activists:
Adelina Nicholls, the executive director of Georgia Latino Alliance of Human Rights in Atlanta;
Shannon Camacho, the Los Angeles County Raids Rapid Response Network coordinator for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights; and
Natalia Aristizabal, co-director of organizing at Make the Road New York.
Camacho says, “We tell our community members that no matter what ICE does, don’t open the door.”
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/12/trump_ice_raids_know_your_rights
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
Immigrants’ Rights
Regardless of your immigration status, you have guaranteed rights under the Constitution.
Learn more here about your rights as an immigrant, and how to express them.
Law enforcement asks about my immigration status
Police or ICE are at my home
How to stay reduce risk to yourself
Stay calm and keep the door closed. Opening the door does not give them permission to come inside, but it is safer to speak to ICE through the door.
Your rights
You have the right to remain silent, even if officer has a warrant.
You do not have to let police or immigration agents into your home unless they have certain kinds of warrants.
If police have an arrest warrant, they are legally allowed to enter the home of the person on the warrant if they believe that person is inside.
But a warrant of removal/deportation (Form I-205) does not allow officers to enter a home without consent.
What to do when the police or ICE arrive
Ask if they are immigration agents and what they are there for.
Ask the agent or officer to show you a badge or identification through the window or peephole.
Ask if they have a warrant signed by a judge. If they say they do, ask them to slide it under the door or hold it up to a window so you can inspect it.
Don’t lie or produce any false documents. Don’t sign anything without speaking with a lawyer first.
Do not open your door unless ICE shows you a judicial search or arrest warrant naming a person in your residence and/or areas to be searched at your address.
If they don’t produce a warrant, keep the door closed. State: “I do not consent to your entry.”
If agents force their way in, do not resist. If you wish to exercise your rights, state: “I do not consent to your entry or to your search of these premises.
I am exercising my right to remain silent. I wish to speak with a lawyer as soon as possible.”
If you are on probation with a search condition, law enforcement is allowed to enter your home.
https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/immigrants-rights/#police-or-ice-are-at-my-home
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Previous posts on immigration, including detention & deportation of illegal aliens and their children:
2019-07-14
On current ICE raids (July 14, 2019)
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2434625310108659
2019-06-19
On Legality and Morality
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2415993031971887
2019-06-18
Re Alien Deportations
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2415062638731593
2018-10-12
Re Separation of Parents at Border
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2245531832351342
2018-05-28
Re ICE Raids against criminal aliens in Philadelphia
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2131778163726710
2018-05-17
Which nationalities get rejected the most for US asylum?
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2126111857626674
2018-01-23
Is arresting and deporting to Poland Dr. Lukasz R. Niec a a fair and effective way to fight illegal immigration?
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2067053876865806
2018-01-22
Is deporting Jorge Garcia and Antonio Cuahua a fair and effective way to fight illegal immigration?
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2066561990248328
2018-01-16
US DHS ICE Raiding Birth Tourism Locations in California catering to the Chinese?
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2063329580571569
2018-01-12
Immigration agents target 7-Eleven stores in nationwide sweep.
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2061405054097355
2018-01-09
The Trump administration is ending temporary protected status (TPS)
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2060176004220260
2017-12-18
Re Harboring Illegal Aliens
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/2049102941994233
2017-07-31
Trump's travel ban has stranded over 100 refugee children who were already matched to waiting American families.
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/1986095111628350
2017-07-14
After Visa Denials, Afghan Girls Can Attend Robotics Contest in U.S.
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/1977197812518080
2017-04-26
Do sanctuary cities "put [alien] criminals back on streets" by refusing to cooperate with DHS ICE
"U.S. judge blocks Trump order to restrict funding for 'sanctuary cities'"
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/1936610453243483
2017-04-02
Arrested while applying for a green card: US immigration experts fear policy shift
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/1923034874601041
2017-03-27
Want US visa? Get ready for extra vetting, scrutiny of social media accounts
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/1919807814923747
2017-03-26
US Visa Fast Facts - Read CNN's Fast Facts about visas in the US and learn about travel documents for immigrants and international visitors.
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/1919328384971690
2017-03-21
US and UK bans larger electronic devices on some flights from Middle East.
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/1916905278547334
2017-03-15
American citizens: US border agents can search your cellphone
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/1913245005580028
2017-03-13
10 Things the Media Will Get Wrong About Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration
https://www.facebook.com/krasovsky911/posts/1912325652338630
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