{"id":21604,"date":"2019-06-14T07:48:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T11:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=21604"},"modified":"2019-06-14T07:48:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T11:48:42","slug":"ice-deportations-optics-meet-reality-immigrationreform-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2019\/06\/14\/ice-deportations-optics-meet-reality-immigrationreform-com\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE Deportations: Optics Meet Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Overcoming qualms of his predecessor, the new boss at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the agency is stepping up deportation<\/a> of illegal aliens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Acting ICE Director Mark Morgan said the focus is on migrants who missed immigration court hearings or received deportation orders. \u201cThat will include families,\u201d he announced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former acting ICE director Ronald Vitiello and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen reportedly were forced out<\/a> of their jobs in part over their worries about the bad optics of targeting families for removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morgan\nhas no such misgivings. A Border Patrol chief at the end of the Obama\nadministration, Morgan said a 2016 operation that carried out enforcement\nactions against illegal alien families in Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina\nled to a decline in illegal crossings at the southwestern border. He said\nincreased rates of deportation send a deterring message to other Central\nAmerican migrants streaming north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ICE reportedly will concentrate its renewed removal efforts on 10 cities with large illegal alien populations, including New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is nothing inherently illegal about trying to arrest and deport people with final [deportation]orders \u2014 it\u2019s just operationally difficult,\u201d noted Michelle Bran\u00e9, director of Migrant Rights and Justice at the Women\u2019s Refugee Commission. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congress isn\u2019t easing the degree of difficulty, as lawmakers dither over spending $4.5 billion on emergency border security measures and more detention facilities. Worse yet, Congress caps how much ICE can spend on deportations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Douglas Rivlin, communications director for America’s Voice, a group that advocates for immigrants, observes that Congress provides ICE with only enough funds to deport about 400,000 people a year<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That may sound like a big number, but not as long as 100 percent<\/a> of migrant family units are being released daily into the U.S. With nearly 120,000 individuals successfully crossing the southern border in March and April, the surge of migrants are in position to overwhelm Morgan\u2019s enforcement officers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overcoming qualms of his predecessor, the new boss at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the agency is stepping up deportation of illegal aliens. Acting ICE Director Mark Morgan said the focus is on migrants who missed immigration court hearings or received deportation orders. \u201cThat will include families,\u201d he announced. Former acting ICE director<\/p>\n

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