DACA is insanely popular

[Trill Clinton]

[boutons_deux]

$41 million vaporware tells ICE to detain immigrants indefinitely no matter what

Back in 2009, the government outsourced a significant amount of the IT work for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to a company called Electronic Data Systems.

Though that particular name didn’t last long, the company, now called DXC Technologies’, partnership with ICE did.

From 2009 to 2013, the company was paid millions of dollars by the U.S. government in order to develop and maintain digital management systems used by ICE.

In 2010 alone it was awarded a $41.6 million contract in order to develop systems “to help speed internal processes regarding immigration status determination” for ICE and the Law Enforcement Support Center (LESC).

Eight years later, the government is still paying DXC and its many, many subsidiaries millions of dollars annually for

a program that, no matter the input, tells the user to detain an undo ented immigrant indefinitely,

rather than release them on bond.

https://theoutline.com/post/5122/41-...=1&zi=lymo6nyn

[rmt]

Well, can't read that article today.

So what did these Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents think they were signing up for? Sounds to me like it should be who and what comes into this country - not "pursue national security threats, child pornography and transnational crime" - which sounds more like the FBI (to me).

[SnakeBoy]

.09% of ICE employee's don't like their job

[Th'Pusher]

.09% of ICE employee's don't like their job

Big federal government good now.

[boutons_deux]

“Are you alone now?”

After raid, immigrant families are separated in the American heartland

He had been afraid to go outside since his mother was detained in an immigration raid 14 days earlier, but

now someone was pounding on the front door of their trailer.

Alex Galvez, 12, waited until the knocking stopped and then cracked the door open to find a small flier left behind on the top step.

He carried it into the kitchen and read it to his older sister.

“Emergency giveaway outside the Post Office! Free food in your time of need!”
“I’m not going,” Alex said, once he’d finished reading the flier.

It had been the promise of free doughnuts that enticed his mother and dozens of her co-workers out of the planting fields and

into the break room that day,

where instead they had been met by 200 federal agents with plastic handcuffs and guns.

Since the day of the raid, they had been staying in the trailer with a rotation of older relatives —

two more children adjusting to a life without their parents as a result of U.S. immigration policies.

Even as President Trump and his administration promise to reunite families separated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the U.S. border,

a similar crisis continues unabated within the country’s interior,

where children are separated from their undo ented parents with little scrutiny and increasing frequency.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...nl_most&wpmm=1

Does Stephen ING Nazi Miller even have any kids of his own?

[boutons_deux]

Justice Department report blames immigrants for terrorism, but doesn’t have the data to prove it

It's the report about nothing.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security released a scary report claiming that three out of four individuals convicted of international terrorism or terrorism-related offenses were “immigrants.”

“This report reveals an indisputable sobering reality—our immigration system has undermined our national security and public safety,” U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a press statement.

“And the information in this report is only the tip of the iceberg: we currently have terrorism-related investigations against thousands of people in the United States, including hundreds of people who came here as refugees.


Devlin Barrett
✔@DevlinBarrett

Key point:

The figures don't distinguish between foreigners specifically extradited to the US for trial, and immigrants arrested for conduct committed here.

Pwn All The Things@pwnallthethings

Replying to @pwnallthethings

Roughly, of convictions for intl terrorism cases from Sept 2001 thru Dec 2016:
25% are US born US citizens
25% are non-US born naturalized US citizens
~50% non US-born non-US citizens

BUT keep in mind intl terrorism offenses is also not an unbiased category here.

9:54 AM - Jan 16, 2018

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Matthew Miller
✔@matthewamiller

This report includes people who committed terrorist acts overseas, were arrested overseas and brought here to face trial - that’s some definition of immigrant.

Justice Department
✔@TheJusticeDept

DOJ, DHS REPORT: THREE OUT OF FOUR INDIVIDUALS CONVICTED OF INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND TERRORISM-RELATED OFFENSES WERE FOREIGN-BORN

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/doj-dhs-report-three-out-four-individuals-convicted-international-terrorism-and-terrorism …

10:00 AM - Jan 16, 2018

https://thinkprogress.org/doj-dhs-report-immigrants-terrorism-ac9035fce52b/

JeBo LYING to justify Trash/Miller/JeBo MUSLIM ban

[boutons_deux]

Trump Repeats Lie That ICE Officers ‘Liberate’ Towns From Gang Members

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewi...0%28TPMNews%29

Trash is deeply mentally, emotionally ill and totally unfit for office.

25th Amendment was aimed at him.

[boutons_deux]

US farmers, desperate for help, increasingly turn to Mexico


In the era of “America First,” there is more vocal opposition to immigrants taking jobs away from Americans. But many farmers in Trump country find they have no choice; no one is responding to their job ads.




The apple trees were heavy with fruit, and the rows and rows of tomatoes, squash, and hot peppers were ripe for picking. But in the end, Gary and Patty Bartley, prizewinning farmers in western Michigan, had to leave $200,000 to $300,000 worth of their crops to rot in their fields last year. They couldn’t find enough people to pick everything.


So this year they did something their lawyer had told them they should never do: enroll in an expensive and bersome visa program known as H-2A to bring up workers from Mexico.
Since the Michigan Farm Bureau set up a for-profit affiliate four years ago to provide guidance navigating the red tape, the number of Michigan growers using the program has jumped from four to 50.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politi...src=newsletter

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2018/0622/US-farmers-desperate-for-help-increasingly-turn-to-Mexico?j=63381&sfmc_sub=38882700&l=587_HTML&u=2421 128&mid=10960030&jb=64&cmpid=ema:Weekender:2018063 0&src=newsletter

[boutons_deux]

US farmers, desperate for help, increasingly turn to Mexico

In the era of “America First,”

there is more vocal opposition to immigrants taking jobs away from Americans.

But many farmers in Trump country find they have no choice; no one is responding to their job ads.

The apple trees were heavy with fruit, and the rows and rows of tomatoes, squash, and hot peppers were ripe for picking.

But in the end, Gary and Patty Bartley, prizewinning farmers in western Michigan,

had to leave $200,000 to $300,000 worth of their crops to rot in their fields last year.

They couldn’t find enough people to pick everything.

So this year they did something their lawyer had told them they should never do: enroll in an expensive and bersome visa program known as H-2A to bring up workers from Mexico.

Since the Michigan Farm Bureau set up a for-profit affiliate four years ago to provide guidance navigating the red tape,

the number of Michigan growers using the program has jumped from four to 50.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politi...src=newsletter

[boutons_deux]

Trash/Miller/Kelly/JeBo ethnically cleansing the US military

The U.S. Army just started purging immigrant recruits to whom it promised citizenship

“Some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged, the Associated Press has learned.”

While the AP was not able to get a definitive number of people who enlisted in the Army through the special recruitment program that have been discharged, immigration attorneys say

they know of more than 40 who have either been quietly ejected from the service or whose status has come into question, placing their futures in jeopardy.

Adding insult to injury,

many of the people being booted out of the Army were not even given explanations for their discharge.

Those who persisted in seeking reasons for their sudden change of fortunes were told that they had been labeled security risks because of overseas relatives or because they had not completed background checks.

Pentagon press representatives refused to comment on the discharges of immigrant recruits citing the pending litigation as their excuse.

https://washingtonpress.com/2018/07/...d-citizenship/

[boutons_deux]

Americans are not as conservative on immigration as you might think

It turns out that Republicans who think the majority of Americans want hard-line immigration policies are wrong

Moreover, recent research suggests that Republican cons uents have been more likely to contact their elected officials than Democratic cons uents.

he American public is supportive of more welcoming immigration policies.

Welcoming policies might include

a pathway to citizenship for undo ented immigrants,

accepting more asylum claims or

allowing the use of multiple languages in public places.

Public opinion on policies for undo ented immigrants in US over time

Support for a path to citizenship for undo ented immigrants in the U.S. has not fallen below 50 percent since 2013. In fact, support has increased over time, a trend that has continued throughout Trump’s presidency.


Public opinion on path to US citizenship by demographics

Support for a path to citizenship varies by one’s background. However, support in 2016 was high across the board, even among self-identified Republicans and conservatives.

Support for a path to citizenship varies by one’s background when it comes to race, gender, education, income, party and ideology. However, support is high across the board, even among those who say they are Republican or conservative.

At udes on this policy show that Americans are not as divided or as conservative as the discourse coming out of Washington, D.C. might reflect and is becoming even more supportive of the welcoming approach.

A welcoming climate need not alienate U.S.-born whites

Public officials may be concerned about alienating non-immigrant whites if they pursue welcoming immigration policies. We tried to find out whether that alienation could happen. In a recent experiment, my colleagues and I asked U.S.-born whites in Arizona and New Mexico how they felt about their state adopting more welcoming or restrictive immigration policies.

We asked people if the proposed policy would make them angry, sad or happy.

We found that liberal and moderate whites responding to the more welcoming treatment were more likely to be happy and less likely to be angry or sad than were those who were responding to the restrictive treatment.

https://www.salon.com/2018/07/10/ame...think_partner/