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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/immigration/article231823753.htmlDeportation crackdown expected to start in Miami and these other cities on Sunday
BY MONIQUE O. MADAN
JUNE 21, 2019 01:33 PM, UPDATED 1 HOUR 26 MINUTES AGONY
Miami will be one of the first cities where U.S. immigration authorities will target people for deportation as early as this Sunday, according to sources who were briefed on the enforcement action.
Immigration agents will target Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, and San Francisco this weekend, sources from congressional offices and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told the Miami Herald.
Amyishere
(69 posts)Not even joking.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)RKP5637
(67,111 posts)MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)Takket
(21,578 posts)They will deport the breadwinner of a family and leave the kids behind broke and jobless. Then it will be the taxpayers job to support them in the foster care system somehow.
TexasTowelie
(112,252 posts)I'm grateful that I received copies of my birth certificate in the mail this week.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Are all huge cities, where lots of people live in big apartment complexes, no? I'm
Imagining scary ice soldiers dressed in black with guns. It will not only petrify the poor people they are after but any other person or child who witnesses it. People might be screaming and crying too.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Or, will they just be going after the ones with Hispanic surnames? This is so fucking sick.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)Do they profile people and ask for papers?
ripcord
(5,409 posts)Until we change the immigration laws there isn't much that can be done about enforcing them.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)you just have to be brown
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,358 posts)nolabear
(41,987 posts)After Katrina droves of construction crews came from Mexico to work. They were warehoused for months and literally rebuilt and tore down and cleaned up the city. I imagine some stayed. I wish I could apologize to every last one of them.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)he's pandering to the lowest of the low
Initech
(100,081 posts)Our road to Kristallnacht 2 is taking a very dangerous path.