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Increasing Cases of U.S. Citizens Detained as Illegal Immigrants
The Obama administrations aggressive deportation program has resulted in a growing number of U.S. citizens being detained by authorities.
Americans arrested have gotten caught up in the controversial Secure Communities program, which checks the fingerprints of anyone who was ever been booked at a local jail and tells local police whether someone in their custody is in the country without authorization. The wrongful arrests have occurred because flawed information from Department of Homeland Security databases instructed the police to hold them for investigation and possible deportation, according to The New York Times.
Citizens taken to jails say police ignored their pleadings of innocence, leaving them to spend days in detention until authorities realized their mistakes. For example, in November Antonio Montejano of Los Angeles was arrested on a charge of shoplifting. After a judge ordered him to be released, he was kept in jail for two more days on suspicion of being an undocumented immigrant. Actually he was an American citizen born in Los Angeles. Back in 1996 he had been mistakenly detained while trying to return to the United States from Mexico. The incident had never been cleared from his record.
In FY 2011, 396,906 individuals were deported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Three out of four of them were convicted criminals or repeat immigration violators.
http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Increasing_Cases_of_US_Citizens_Detained_as_Illegal_Immigrants_111215
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)and are being stuck in foster care. Those families may never be re-united again. ICE is creating a whole 'nother level of problems that we will be paying for for years to come, not to mention, destroying the lives of those kids and their families.
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/11/thousands_of_kids_lost_in_foster_homes_after_parents_deportation.html
All to appease the right wing nutcases.
pipoman
(16,038 posts)I am currently dealing with a beautiful and productive person who may have to leave her 7 year old daughter who is a US citizen behind..it is saddening, maddening, and unjust.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)Capitalocracy
(4,307 posts)Creepy.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)izquierdista
(11,689 posts)Has foreign corporation ever been deported?
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)...by authorities terrified of the political power of Mexican-Americans in the Southwest.