Democrats outraged over deportations targeting C. American immigrants

[Lion Heart 15,041]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Democrats confronted White House officials on Thursday over holiday-season raids seeking Central American immigrants for deportation, accusing the administration of spreading terror through immigrant communities.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez said that President Barack Obama risks all the goodwill he has built up over the last year through his executive actions sparing millions from deportation, actions now tied up in court. And he complained that the administration did not alert congressional allies before conducting the raids, with first became public when The Washington Post published a story about the plans just before Christmas.

Gutierrez and other lawmakers raised those complaints and others during a meeting with administration officials, including Cecilia Munoz, director of the Domestic Policy Council.

“In the Hispanic Caucus there’s a real sense of outrage,” Gutierrez said.

Gutierrez said he pointed out to Munoz that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, running on an anti-immigrant platform, has praised the raids — and taken credit for them.

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The planned deportations come as administration officials worry about another surge of Central American women, children and families at the southern border as people flee violence and persecution in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. A similar situation consumed the attention of Congress and the administration in the summer of 2014, though Congress never acted on an emergency budget request and policy changes sought by the administration. The crisis subsequently receded from public view as the number of arrivals dropped, but they are back on the rise.

Full story: http://news.yahoo.com/us-democrats-furious-over-obama-administration-deportations-221803814.html

[GloZell Green 11,723]

So am I. I'm afraid, everyone here in Chicago is. We've all been warned since someone was visited by ICE. I can't believe this bullshit is actually happening  

[Goosey 3,017]

41 minutes ago, GloZell Green said:

So am I. I'm afraid, everyone here in Chicago is. We've all been warned since someone was visited by ICE. I can't believe this bullshit is actually happening  

Everyone in Chicago is afraid?

This only affects people who are in the country illegally. If they're in the country illegally, they need to go. That's the whole point of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

 

[Born To Slay 10,996]

Don't send them back. Find them, make them legal and **** and let them live here. #ThisLandIsYourLandThisLandIsMyLand

[GloZell Green 11,723]

12 minutes ago, Goosey said:

Everyone in Chicago is afraid?

This only affects people who are in the country illegally. If they're in the country illegally, they need to go. That's the whole point of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

 

The people who it applies to, I also don't see a point in deporting Mexicans who owned half the land until Americans invaded and called it their own. Not very civil. Illegally, maybe if the country have a sh*t and didn't charge so much to be a refugee or payed attention to what some people have to go through in South America this wouldn't be a problem.