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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsICE Arrests Man Driving Pregnant Wife To Deliver Baby
By Matt Shuham | August 18, 2018 12:04 pm
Joel Arrona Lara was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while driving his wife to the hospital to deliver their child, CBSLA, Univision and other outlets have reported.
Maria del Carmen Venegas, Arronas then-pregnant wife, drove herself to the hospital for her own Cesarean section on Wednesday after ICE arrested her husband at a gas station on the way to the hospital.
The ICE agents asked him to step out of the vehicle after he was unable to produce identification, despite the couple protesting that they lived nearby and could go get it, Venegas said.
The last thing he knew was that I was here in the hospital, she told Univision.
Arrona Lara has never been in trouble with the law, she said.
But, beginning early in the Trump administration, ICE announced that it no longer exempt[s] classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement, meaning even law-abiding undocumented people face the constant threat of deportation.
ICE told CBSLA in a statement:
Mr. Arrona-Lara, a citizen of Mexico illegally residing in the United States, was taken into custody Wednesday by ICE Fugitive Operations Team officers in San Bernardino, Calif. Mr. Arrona-Lara is currently in ICE custody pending removal proceedings with the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).
ICE continues to focus its enforcement resources on individuals who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security. ICE conducts targeted immigration enforcement in compliance with federal law and agency policy. However, ICE will no longer exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. All of those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States.
ICE continues to focus its enforcement resources on individuals who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security. ICE conducts targeted immigration enforcement in compliance with federal law and agency policy. However, ICE will no longer exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. All of those in violation of the immigration laws may be subject to immigration arrest, detention and, if found removable by final order, removal from the United States.
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ICE Arrests Man Driving Pregnant Wife To Deliver Baby (Original Post)
DonViejo
Aug 2018
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)1. Gestapo, etc. Slave patrols, basically.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. Wonder if they get bounties.
That would not surprise me.
snort
(2,334 posts)3. FUCK ICE