{"id":66765,"date":"2017-02-21T18:06:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T22:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66765"},"modified":"2017-02-21T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T22:06:32","slug":"homeland-security-unveils-sweeping-plan-to-deport-undocumented-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66765","title":{"rendered":"Homeland Security unveils sweeping plan to deport undocumented immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-Pvq9J9wMfq8\" class=\"story-asset story-metadata-asset\">\n<div class=\"article-metadata-wrap\">\n<section id=\"module-position-Pvq9J9vYCbs\" class=\"storymetadata-bucket expandable-photo-module story-expandable-photo-module\">\n<aside class=\"single-photo expandable-collapsed\">\n<div id=\"attachment_66766\" style=\"width: 544px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/636232663226209230-AFP-AFP-LM4OF-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66766\" class=\"size-full wp-image-66766\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/636232663226209230-AFP-AFP-LM4OF-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/636232663226209230-AFP-AFP-LM4OF-1.jpg 534w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/636232663226209230-AFP-AFP-LM4OF-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-66766\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Charles Reed, AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Alan Gomez , USA TODAY<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security issued a sweeping set of orders Tuesday that implement President Trump&#8217;s plan to increase immigration enforcement, placing the vast majority of the nation&#8217;s 11 million undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation.<\/p>\n<p>The memos\u00a0instruct all agents, including\u00a0Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to identify, capture and quickly deport every\u00a0undocumented immigrant\u00a0they encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The memos require\u00a0undocumented immigrants caught entering the country to be placed in detention until their cases are resolved, increase\u00a0the ability of local police to help in immigration enforcement, call for the hiring of 10,000 more immigration agents and allow\u00a0planning to begin on an expansion of the border wall between the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The memos make undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of a crime the highest priority for enforcement operations. But they make clear that ICE agents should also arrest and initiate deportation proceedings against any other undocumented immigrant they encounter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Department personnel have full authority to arrest or apprehend an alien whom an immigration officers has probable cause to believe is in violation of the immigration laws,&#8221; one memo read. &#8220;They also have full authority to initiate removal proceedings against any alien who is subject to removal under any provision of the (Immigration and Nationality Act).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Homeland Security official who briefed reporters\u00a0Tuesday said that deportation protections President Obama granted in 2012 to undocumented immigrants\u00a0brought to the country as children will continue to be\u00a0honored so long as those immigrants\u00a0abide by the rules of the\u00a0program. The official\u00a0spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss details of the memos.<\/p>\n<p>More\u00a0than 750,000 undocumented immigrants are eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program (DACA).<\/p>\n<p>The also orders\u00a0detail a broad plan to keep undocumented immigrants caught crossing the southwest border from making it to the interior of the U.S.\u00a0They call for detaining all of them until their cases are resolved.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, many undocumented immigrants are processed by immigration agents, released around\u00a0the country and ordered to reappear for court hearings. The memos seek to end that practice, known as \u201ccatch and release,\u201d by ordering the construction of more jails along the southwest border to house detained immigrants\u00a0until their cases are resolved.<\/p>\n<p>The new directives also allow Customs agents\u00a0to send some people directly back to Mexico, whether they\u2019re Mexican or not. Under previous administrations, people from Mexico and Canada\u00a0could be deported directly back home. But people from all other countries, such as from Central America, had to detained until they could be flown back to their country of origin.<\/p>\n<p>The memos do not mention the idea of using National Guard troops along the southwest border, as reported by several media outlets last week.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-Pvq9J9x7l6g\" class=\"story-asset embed-asset\">\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<p><a title=\"View Implementing the President&amp;#x27;s Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements Policies on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/339924319\/Implementing-the-President-s-Border-Security-and-Immigration-Enforcement-Improvements-Policies#from_embed\">Implementing the President&amp;#x27;s Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements Policies<\/a> by <a title=\"View USA TODAY's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/publisher\/21187943\/USA-TODAY#from_embed\">USA TODAY<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_35934\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/339924319\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-rzVNpjPuRwYWKvQle8zV&amp;show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"module-position-Pvq9J9wu54w\" class=\"story-asset embed-asset\">\n<div class=\"embed\">\n<p><a title=\"View Enforcement of the Immigration Laws to Serve the National Interest on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/339924316\/Enforcement-of-the-Immigration-Laws-to-Serve-the-National-Interest#from_embed\">Enforcement of the Immigration Laws to Serve the National Interest<\/a> by <a title=\"View USA TODAY's profile on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/publisher\/21187943\/USA-TODAY#from_embed\">USA TODAY<\/a> on Scribd<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_27123\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/339924316\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-BudK2D1Eya4vX4NSiNou&amp;show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"module-position-Pvq9J9xtJys\" class=\"story-asset inline-share-tools-asset\"><\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2017\/02\/21\/donald-trump-homeland-security-issues-deportation-memos\/98190192\/\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2017\/02\/21\/donald-trump-homeland-security-issues-deportation-memos\/98190192\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}