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SharonAnn

(13,766 posts)
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:13 AM Feb 2017

Memos signed by DHS secretary describe sweeping new guidelines for deporting illegal immigrants

Source: Washington Post

Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly has signed sweeping new guidelines that empower federal authorities to more aggressively detain and deport illegal immigrants inside the United States and at the border.

In a pair of memos, Kelly offered more detail on plans for the agency to hire thousands of additional enforcement agents, expand the pool of immigrants who are prioritized for removal, speed up deportation hearings and enlist local law enforcement to help make arrests.

The new directives would supersede nearly all of those issued under previous administrations, Kelly said, including measures from President Barack Obama aimed at focusing deportations exclusively on hardened criminals and those with terrorist ties.

“The surge of immigration at the southern border has overwhelmed federal agencies and resources and has created a significant national security vulnerability to the United States,” Kelly stated in the guidelines.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/memos-signed-by-dhs-secretary-describe-sweeping-new-guidelines-for-deporting-illegal-immigrants/2017/02/18/7538c072-f62c-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_dhs815pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.e0ae9d82e3ab

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Memos signed by DHS secretary describe sweeping new guidelines for deporting illegal immigrants (Original Post) SharonAnn Feb 2017 OP
What surge? SHRED Feb 2017 #1
Absolutely correct. #TraitorTrump can't constitutionally ban Muslims, so he's going after Mexicans iluvtennis Feb 2017 #2
Another lie. nclib Feb 2017 #3
+1 Lucinda Feb 2017 #4
I guess it was the 155,000 children that came by themselves. Revoking sinkingfeeling Feb 2017 #7
Tense and aspect have meaning. Igel Feb 2017 #9
It depends on what the meaning of "is" is progree Feb 2017 #12
why didn't the washington post expose this lie, again, in the article. KewlKat Feb 2017 #5
That's his plan, lark Feb 2017 #6
Sounds like this "guy" turbinetree Feb 2017 #8
Welcome orangecrush Feb 2017 #10
I heard an official from Mexico on NPR LeftInTX Feb 2017 #11
 

SHRED

(28,136 posts)
1. What surge?
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:16 AM
Feb 2017

I have read a lot of articles that we are at a net zero immigration at our southern border.

iluvtennis

(19,757 posts)
2. Absolutely correct. #TraitorTrump can't constitutionally ban Muslims, so he's going after Mexicans
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 02:21 AM
Feb 2017

sinkingfeeling

(51,276 posts)
7. I guess it was the 155,000 children that came by themselves. Revoking
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 11:13 AM
Feb 2017

Obama's rule that they can be reunited with 'illegal' parents and remain here.

Igel

(35,191 posts)
9. Tense and aspect have meaning.
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 11:44 AM
Feb 2017

People miss this; Bill Clinton knew it but made the mistake of assuming others knew it, too.

We were at net zero immigration at our southern border. There had been a net positive immigration. We aren't at a net positive. Notice how the tense (and aspect) changed?

It's not 2015 any more. Now there's another surge (which doesn't necessarily mean a huge number, but a sudden large increase), mostly Central Americans. At least as of last fall. Who knows what it's doing as of mid-February 2017. The times they are a-changin'. See, there time went again. It's not 9:43 am where I live any more.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/central-americans-continue-to-surge-across-us-border-new-dhs-figures-show/2016/12/30/ed28c0aa-cec7-11e6-b8a2-8c2a61b0436f_story.html?utm_term=.87d72897724e


A lot of people can't unlearn that there "is" net zero immigration so as to replace it with updated information.

progree

(10,864 posts)
12. It depends on what the meaning of "is" is
Mon Feb 20, 2017, 06:04 PM
Feb 2017


[div class="excerpt" style="background-color:#CEF6FE;"] A lot of people can't unlearn that there "is" net zero immigration so as to replace it with updated information.

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)
5. why didn't the washington post expose this lie, again, in the article.
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 03:57 AM
Feb 2017

“The surge of immigration at the southern border has overwhelmed federal agencies.....but has NO BASIS OUTSIDE THE REPULBLICAN TALKING POINT,

lark

(23,003 posts)
6. That's his plan,
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 10:41 AM
Feb 2017

tell so many lies so often that the press just can't keep up and call him and his minions on every one. That's a large part of what he means when he says he loves chaos.

LeftInTX

(24,549 posts)
11. I heard an official from Mexico on NPR
Sun Feb 19, 2017, 01:00 PM
Feb 2017

They have a few tricks up their sleeve if Trump gets too bad.
They can reject Mexican citizens that the US attempts to return.
They can kick out our DEA agents.

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