Homeland security is on a mission to carry out a nationwide raid that would see to the deportation of both children and adults who streamed into the United States since the beginning of last year. This nationwide campaign would be implemented at the early start of January 2016 by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); it is going to be a massive attempt to deport families who fled the violence in Central America.
A total of more than 100,000 families, children, and adults inclusive streamed across the southwest border since last year. The large surge of unaccompanied minors, however, cast a shadow over this migration. Adults and children who have been ordered to leave the United States by a judge would be the main targets of ICE. According to the Washington Post, the sources of this information remained anonymous due to the fact that this is an ongoing issue that has not received the DHS approval. Adults and children are to be detained on sight and would receive immediate deportation; the number would be up to a thousand and probably more.
Deportations have been a main issue and have received a lot of controversial intake since the start of the Obama administration. Jeh Johnson, secretary of DHS, has been an advocate for the issue, according to the “source,” due to the rise in immigration since the past few months. According to experts, the violence that caused a lot of people to flee Central America has risen again. For example, the homicide rate in El Salvador has reached the peak in a generation. The drought that plagued the region also sparked the departures. Homeland security
The DHS has recently been ordered by the court to release any family held in detention centers. This request has made the issue of deportation tenser.
Jeh Johnson has made it known to the public for months now that any Central American families without an asylum grant would have to dance to the tune of deportation. This would possibly spark a new backlash from Latino groups who have endlessly been accusing the administration of being too hard on the detention policies, although Republicans always seem to call out President Obama as being too loose with border security. Homeland security
The director of advocacy for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Gregory Chen, had some concerns to express, saying, “It would be an outrage if the administration subjected Central American families to even more aggressive enforcement tactics, this administration has never acknowledged the truth: that these families are refugees seeking asylum who should be given humanitarian protection rather than being detained or rounded up. When other countries are welcoming far more refugees, the U.S. should be ashamed for using jails and even more contemplating large scale deportation tactics.”
The groups in support of deportations claim the action is overdue and are skeptical about whether the targeted amount would be enough to stop future Central American immigration. Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, said, “I’ll believe it when I see it, what share is this going to be? …It’s a drop in the bucket compared to the number they’ve admitted into the country. If you have photogenic raids on a few dozen illegal families and that’s just the end of it, it’s just for show. It’s just a [public relations] thing, Enforcement Theater.”
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