Fall In, Dress, Right Dress, Listen Up: Boot Camp Starts Right Now
(Option #1)
Get on the Damn Train: We're heading south
(Option #2)
The story headlines is startling:
“Trump
weighs mobilizing Nat Guard for immigration roundups”
First this background look at the former candidate who now sits in the Oval
Office, who I now call the “L-in-C” (Liar-in-Chief).
Today’s post starts from here:
As
many as 100,000 National Guard troops may be used by Trump to round up
unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico
border (Cite: A draft memo obtained by
The Associated Press).
The
11-page document calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration
enforcement as far north as Portland, Oregon, and as far east as New Orleans,
Louisiana. Further, four states that border on Mexico are included in the
proposal — California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — but it also encompasses
seven states contiguous to those four — Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Colorado,
Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana.
Then
about this, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said: “[…] the AP report was 100
percent not true and irresponsible,” adding: “There is no effort at all to
utilize the National Guard to round up unauthorized immigrants.”
(I
note: What will Spicer and the W/H say if this report turns out to be true? –
Punt certainly comes to mind).
Noteworthy
from this not-true, irresponsible memo (Spicer labeled):
1. Governors in the 11 states would have a
choice whether to have their guard troops participate, according to the memo
(which was written by DHS Secretary John Kelly.
2. Using National Guard troops to operate inside
non-border states also go far beyond past such deployments in that kind of
effort.
3. In addition to responding to natural or
man-made disasters or for military protection of the population or critical
infrastructure, etc., Guard forces have been used to assist with immigration-related
tasks on the US-Mexico border, including the construction of fences.
Examples:
In the mid-2000s, President George W. Bush twice deployed Guard troops on the
border to focus on non-law enforcement duties to help augment the Border Patrol
as it bolstered its ranks.
In
2010, then-Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced a border security plan that
included Guard reconnaissance, aerial patrolling and military exercises.
In
July 2014, then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry ordered 1,000 National Guard troops to
the border when the surge of migrant children fleeing violence in Central America
overwhelmed U.S. officials responsible for their care. The Guard troops' stated
role on the border at the time was to provide extra sets of eyes but not make
arrests.
The
Federal program is called the “287(g) program” — so named for a section of a
1996 immigration law, which allows specially trained local law enforcement
officials to participate in immigration enforcement on the streets and check
whether people held in local jails were in the country illegally. ICE trained
and certified roughly 1,600 officers to carry out those checks from 2006 to
2015.
The
draft memo goes on to describe the program as a “highly successful force
multiplier that identified more than 402,000 removable aliens.”
Noteworthy:
Federal immigration watchdogs were critical of how DHS ran the 287(g) program,
saying it was poorly supervised and provided insufficient training to officers,
including on civil rights law.
President Obama phased out all the
arrest power agreements in 2013 to instead focus on: deporting recent border crossers and immigrants in
the country illegally who posed a safety or national security threat.
Key
Points:
1. Trump's immigration strategy emerges as
detentions at the nation's southern border are down significantly from levels
seen in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
2. In 2016 for example, arrests were the 5th
lowest since 1972.
3. Deportations of people living in the U.S.
illegally also increased under the Obama administration (however, Republicans
criticized Obama for setting prosecution guidelines that spared some groups
from the threat of deportation, including those brought to the U.S. illegally
as children – the DACA program (see below).
4. Now, ICE officers arrested more than 680
people around the country in what Kelly said were routine, targeted operations
(advocates called the actions stepped-up enforcement under Trump).
DAPA stands for the “Deferred Action for Parental Accountability” program,
announced in November of 2014 and modified the 2012 law with Executive Action
by former President Obama. This program allows for certain parents, who meet
the below criteria, to apply for and be granted Deferred Action. A grant of
deferred action under DAPA means that, for a period of three years, you are no
longer a priority for deportation. With a grant of DAPA you are also eligible
to apply for work authorization in the US.
DACA: In June of 2012, this program was announced. It stands for “Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals” also called DACA 2012. The program essentially means that certain children,
those who arrived to the United States prior to turning 16 years of age, would
no longer be a priority for deportation. In addition to having arrived before
the age of 16, in order to be eligible for DACA and meet a few other
criteria.
Boy, in summary – what a mess. But, the worst is yet to come and it isn’t
going to be pretty – bet on it. Look in the mirror and ask: Where did my
immigrant ancestors come from to live and prosper here as Americans. How many
of them changed their names and why, like say from Drumpf to Trump (just to stay here)?
Hey, just
asking, but that did happen. On February 28, 2016, the host of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [click link for the video] launched into a lengthy segment about Donald Trump, which culminated with Oliver using Trump’s ancestral surname, “Drumpf.” In the video the portion begins at around 18:40 mark. Interesting isn’t it - I wonder why the name change (hiding something), so, papers, please...!!!
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