These are the faces of deportations under Trump
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Source: MSN/USA Today
Angel Ortiz Paz was warming up his car just before 6 a.m. outside his Gaithersburg, Md., townhouse on a recent morning when federal agents pulled in behind him.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were looking for two other men who were undocumented immigrants in the neighborhood, but they started asking Ortiz about his status. As his wife and two children all U.S. citizens were inside the house, Ortiz showed them his Maryland-issued driver's license and his Honduran passport.
The agents ran a background check on the information and found that Ortiz was also an undocumented immigrant. They saw a 9-year-old DUI conviction on his record and a 16-year-old deportation order by a federal judge shortly after Ortiz illegally crossed the southwest border into the U.S. The agents handcuffed and arrested Ortiz, who is now in federal custody in Louisiana and set to be deported by Friday.
As his attorney scrambles to halt Ortiz's deportation, the construction worker has become the latest face of President Trump's deportation program, which calls for rounding up non-violent undocumented immigrants who would not have been deported under former president Barack Obama's policy.
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brooklynite
(94,302 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Bannon and 45 are fiends. This must stop. This is only the beginning of what they will do to groups they want to expunge.
Resist.
iluvtennis
(19,825 posts)violent criminals, not people who have been living in US for multiple decades and being just normal every day working folks. Trump and Bannon need to burn in HELL.
Rhiannon12866
(204,643 posts)We're a nation of immigrants, that's what this country was always about! On my Dad's side, my great grandparents came from Ireland and my mother's parents came here from Poland, went through Ellis Island, so it hasn't been that long. They found a better life here and that's the same thing immigrants to this country are hoping for today.
Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)Or they would have ignored Mr. Ortiz and kept looking for the two people they were after.
sinkingfeeling
(51,436 posts)mcar
(42,278 posts)Violates the Statement of Purpose for this forum