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
SHRED
(28,136 posts)I have read a lot of articles that we are at a net zero immigration at our southern border.
iluvtennis
(19,757 posts)No one can believe anything they say.
sinkingfeeling
(51,276 posts)Obama's rule that they can be reunited with 'illegal' parents and remain here.
Igel
(35,191 posts)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)[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)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)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.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)orangecrush
(19,236 posts)To the Eastern Bloc.
LeftInTX
(24,549 posts)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.