The Trump administration is directing immigration agents to track down hundreds of thousands of migrant children who entered the United States without their parents, expanding the president’s mass deportation effort, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memo outlines an unprecedented push to target migrant children who crossed the border illegally as unaccompanied minors.
It lays out four phases of implementation, beginning with a planning phase on January 27, although it did not provide a start date for enforcement operations.
As well as enforcing immigration laws, the memo, headlined the “Unaccompanied Alien Children Joint Initiative Field Implementation”, said the initiative aims to ensure that children are not victims of human trafficking or other forms of exploitation.
The memo said the children would be served a notice to appear in immigration court or deported, if deportation orders were pending against them.
In the memo, ICE said it had collected data from a number of sources on unaccompanied minors and sorted them into three priority groups, “flight risk”, “public safety” and “border security”.
It directed agents to focus on children deemed “flight risks” – including those ordered deported for missing court hearings and those released to sponsors who are not blood relatives.
Individual ICE field offices will determine “how to best locate, make contact, and serve immigration documents as appropriate for individual targets, when conducting enforcement actions” involving unaccompanied children, the memo said.
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whats next? wearing the noses and ears of migrants strung out on necklaces for MAGA?
This is truly disgusting, I wonder what the MAGA pastors and so called Christians have to say.