(TFC) — The United States has started mass deportations of Iraqi Christians. The Christians will be sent to an area with an active war zone, many have been told they will be sent to Mosul, a location with an active ISIS presence. They will be murdered if their religious affiliation is discovered.
Oscar Millan, right, was detained by ICE officers just as he was about to pick up his newborn son, Oscar Matias, from surgery. If deported, he’ll also leave behind an older son, Angel. Both are U.S. citizens. (Photo courtesy of Evanice Escudero/Pro Publica)
Early last Monday morning, Oscar Millan’s longtime partner called him from a Boston hospital, weepy with relief.
(ANTIMEDIA) The ACLU issued a “travel alert” in the state of Texas Wednesday, warning “anyone planning to travel to Texas in the near future to anticipate the possible violation of their constitutional rights when stopped by law enforcement.”
(ANTIMEDIA) A story last week highlights the fact that undocumented people in America aren’t the only ones affected by Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
On Friday, The Daily Beast reported that a U.S. citizen is suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after being wrongfully held for nearly three weeks.
Law enforcement agents investigate the scene of a shooting in Chicago on Monday, March 27, 2017. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said a special agent was attempting to arrest someone Monday morning when a second person pointed a weapon at agents. ICE officials said the special agent fired his weapon, wounding the second person. (Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune)
Mass deportations became a routine occurrence under the Obama administration. According to a report from the Miami Herald, during the first seven years of Obama’s presidency “more than 2.7 million foreign nationals were deported.”
(ANTIMEDIA) — President Trump has apparently combined two of his proposed policy initiatives: creating thousands of jobs for the American public by adding law enforcement positions to deport large swaths of undocumented immigrants.
(ANTIMEDIA Op-Ed) Milo Yiannopoulos has become the poster child of the alt-right, anti-pc culture. At first glance, the rest of the world might want to breathe a sigh of relief. After all, the hard right anti-establishment fringe has accepted a gay immigrant Jew. The times are changing, right?
During last fall’s campaign, Donald Trump vowed to get rid of the “bad hombres” among the 11 million undocumented people in the U.S., but recent raids appear far less targeted, reports Dennis J Bernstein. By Dennis J Bernstein President Donald…Read more →
Over 680 people were arrested in a five-day-long campaign of raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency last week, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A quarter of those arrested had no criminal records. The first immigration sweep by the Trump administration also marks the first arrest of a DACA recipient, 23-year-old Daniel Ramirez Medina. Ramirez,[Read More...]
