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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTop Trump Official JOHN KELLY Ordered ICE To Portray Immigrants As Criminals To Justify Raids
Alice Speri
October 16 2017, 2:35 p.m.
A DIRECTIVE TO immigration officials across the country to try to portray undocumented immigrants swept up in mass raids as criminals came directly from then-Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, The Intercept has learned.
Earlier this month, The Intercept published a cache of internal emails exchanged between Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Texas in February, while the first mass raids of the Trump administration were underway.
The redacted emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by students at Vanderbilt University Law School, show that while hundreds of undocumented immigrants were rounded up across the country, DHS officials tried and largely failed to engineer a narrative that would substantiate the administrations claims that the raids were motivated by public safety concerns. In the emails, local ICE officials are ordered to come up with three egregious cases of apprehended criminals to highlight to the media.
The February raids the first in an ongoing series under this administration led to 680 arrests nationwide, including arrests of dozens of individuals who had no criminal history. In Austin, Texas, where 51 people were arrested, the majority of those arrested had no criminal record.
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/16/top-trump-official-john-kelly-ordered-ice-to-portray-immigrants-as-criminals-to-justify-raids/
October 16 2017, 2:35 p.m.
A DIRECTIVE TO immigration officials across the country to try to portray undocumented immigrants swept up in mass raids as criminals came directly from then-Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, The Intercept has learned.
Earlier this month, The Intercept published a cache of internal emails exchanged between Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Texas in February, while the first mass raids of the Trump administration were underway.
The redacted emails, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by students at Vanderbilt University Law School, show that while hundreds of undocumented immigrants were rounded up across the country, DHS officials tried and largely failed to engineer a narrative that would substantiate the administrations claims that the raids were motivated by public safety concerns. In the emails, local ICE officials are ordered to come up with three egregious cases of apprehended criminals to highlight to the media.
The February raids the first in an ongoing series under this administration led to 680 arrests nationwide, including arrests of dozens of individuals who had no criminal history. In Austin, Texas, where 51 people were arrested, the majority of those arrested had no criminal record.
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/16/top-trump-official-john-kelly-ordered-ice-to-portray-immigrants-as-criminals-to-justify-raids/
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Top Trump Official JOHN KELLY Ordered ICE To Portray Immigrants As Criminals To Justify Raids (Original Post)
MrScorpio
Oct 2017
OP
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)1. Can we prioritize our levels of bad as they
Dissipate from being an immediate threat?
You know starting with the unhinged lunatic with the nuclear codes? And Setting aside (for now) the relatively sane hooligans who are our only defense from said lunatic?
Krhxbye
Not to say they aren't horrible and evil. But for now their horribleness and evil isn't an immediate danger.to the existence of the entire human civilization.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. and this is the man we expect to save us from Trump
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)3. Well, there goes hope.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)4. I'm not surprised.
MLAA
(17,298 posts)5. Awful. Another awful human being.
bdtrppr6
(796 posts)6. I knew he was
as big an asshole as he looks. yeah, the rational one keeping an even keel in the WH.
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)7. Policy by Prejudice.