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the sad thing is Stephen Miller was smart enough to know he didn't have to be president himself to run the country.
 

Hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children can stay in the U.S. for now, judge says​



“A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from expelling hundreds of Guatemalan children who crossed the U.S. border alone.

Although the government had not obtained legal permission to remove the children, some of their lawyers said, Guatemalan children were already loaded on planes on a tarmac while the judge conducted a hearing about the situation on Sunday, a U.S. attorney confirmed.

The temporary halt, issued Sunday afternoon, allows lawyers 14 more days to discuss the case and prevents any children from being removed during the next two weeks….”
 
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Hundreds of unaccompanied Guatemalan children can stay in the U.S. for now, judge says​



“A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from expelling hundreds of Guatemalan children who crossed the U.S. border alone.

Although the government had not obtained legal permission to remove the children, some of their lawyers said, Guatemalan children were already loaded on planes on a tarmac while the judge conducted a hearing about the situation on Sunday, a U.S. attorney confirmed.

The temporary halt, issued Sunday afternoon, allows lawyers 14 more days to discuss the case and prevents any children from being removed during the next two weeks….”
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“… "The government is trying to spin this as child protection, but it's not, it's child abuse," said Wolozin. "It wasn't orderly, it skipped all of the procedural protections."

In a statement issued on Sunday evening, the National Immigration Law Center said they intend to continue fighting to protect the Guatemalan children.

"In the dead of night on a holiday weekend, the Trump administration ripped vulnerable, frightened children from their beds and attempted to return them to danger in Guatemala," said Efrén Olivares, a lead attorney at the National Immigration Law Center.

"We are heartened the Court prevented this injustice from occurring before hundreds of children suffered irreparable harm."“
 
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‘Trump’s private army’: inside the push to recruit 10,000 immigration officers

As Ice expands and standards are lowered, advocates and former US officials warn that misconduct may increase
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The last time the US dramatically expanded its force of immigration officers, major problems arose.

Some border agents recruited in the 2000s turned out to be cartel members. One kidnapped and raped three women in his custody. Two others were convicted of off-duty murders.


Now, as Donald Trump vows to build “the largest deportation operation” in history and kicks off a massive recruitment spree, human rights advocates and former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials are warning that misconduct and violence by officers could increase as a result.

Bolstered by an unprecedented $170bn in funding for Immigration and Border Enforcement, the DHS is seeking to hire 10,000 new Ice officers and 3,000 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents by the end of the year.

In its desperate race to staff up and meet Trump deputy Stephen Miller’s aggressive goal of 3,000 immigration-related arrests a day, the DHS is now advertising substantial incentives for Ice recruits. That includes a signing bonus of up to $50,000 and as much as $60,000 in student loan repayment.

t has expanded the officer recruitment age, which was generally 21-40, to all people 18 and over, and has shortened training periods to get agents in the field faster.

It has launched a prolific social media campaign, featuring memes and imagery that critics say echo white supremacist ideologies.

In the past, US officials have repeatedly dismissed misconduct, or even crimes, by immigration officers as anomalies. Watchdogs, however, argue corruption and abuse within Ice and CBP is rampant – and that the White House’s hiring tactics threaten to supercharge problems.

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When border patrol nearly doubled its workforce between 2005 and 2011, expanding from 11,300 to 21,400 agents, hiring guidelines were changed and training requirements were loosened, according to the Associated Press. Agents were rushed through the academy before background checks were done. Ralph Basham, George W Bush’s CBP commissioner, told Politico Magazine in 2014: “We made some mistakes. We found out later that we did, in fact, hire cartel members.”

Reports of misconduct by immigration officers increased. Nearly one CBP officer was arrested for misconduct every day from 2005 to 2012, Politico found. CBP shootings and use-of-force complaints surged from 2007 to 2012. In 2018, a border patrol agent was arrested for killing four women, the same year another agent was arrested for killing his girlfriend and their baby and three other CBP officers were accused of sexually assaulting a colleague on office furniture they deemed the “rape table”.
 
Just watched a video on youtube that was filmed today one block from my MIL's house in DC of masked men hauling someone into an unmarked van. My MIL's neighbors demanded ID of the masked men and received nothing but warnings to step away from the incident.
 
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Just watched a video on youtube that was filmed today one block from my MIL's house in DC of masked men hauling someone into an unmarked van. My MIL's neighbors demanded ID of the masked men and received nothing but warnings to step away from the incident.
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Seems like if masked men without ID were taking someone then it could be considered kidnapping and they should be able to defend themselves.
 
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