Immigration Order Expands the Definition of Criminal

[struggle4progress]

By JENNIFER MEDINA
JAN. 26, 2017

After President Trump signed two sweeping executive orders on immigration on Wednesday, most of the attention was on his plans to build a wall along the border with Mexico and to hold back money from “sanctuary cities.” But the most immediate impact may come from language about deportation priorities that is tucked into the border wall order. It offers an expansive definition of who is considered a criminal — a category of people Mr. Trump has said he would target for deportation. Immigration agents will now have wider latitude to enforce federal laws and are being encouraged to deport broad swaths of unauthorized immigrants ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/us/trump-immigration-deportation.html

[Eugene]

1. Recommend reading the NYT article in full. We were warned about this.

Trump will get his 3 million bad hombres by applying the loosest
possible definition of criminal. Cross the border illegally, you may
be included. The only things holding a deportation force back
will be funding and manpower.

[jmg257]

2. Since anyone here illegally is committing a misdemeanor, sure seems he

Means to include them all as "crimnals".

"The order defines criminal loosely, and includes anyone who has crossed the border illegally — which is a criminal misdemeanor."
...
"He also includes, according to language in the order, anyone who has “committed acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense,” meaning anyone the authorities believe has broken any type of law —"