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ICE, Jealous Of El Salvador, Declares None May Ever Leave Immigration Gulags
https://www.wonkette.com/p/ice-jealous-of-el-salvador-declaresDoktor Zoom
Constitution? We don't do 'Constitution' anymore.
The Trump administration has declared — without ever informing the American people, because what part of authoritarianism didn’t you understand? — that effective immediately, immigrants who came to the US without papers no longer have the right to a bond hearing, no matter how long they’ve been in the US. The new policy was revealed yesterday in reporting by the Washington Post (gift link). Immigration lawyers said the new policy applies to millions of people, including folks who have been here for decades and have established families, own homes and businesses, and who haven’t broken any laws other than crossing the border without authorization (remember, kids, that’s a misdemeanor on the first offense).
The administration is changing how it interprets a 1996 law that allowed “mandatory detention” of certain criminal aliens like murderers and other violent criminals, keeping them in detention until their deportation cases were completed. But in a July 8 memo, Todd Lyons, (acting) director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) informed the agency that any immigrants who ever entered the country illegally will now be locked up “for the duration of their removal proceedings.” Because the immigration system is horribly backlogged, that can take months or years.
It’s a huge change in immigration cases, as the American Immigration Council’s Aaron Reichlin-Melnick points out, because
Well, now we know what ICE plans to do with the $45 billion in new funding the Big Ugly Bill gave it to expand its prison capacity. As Lauren-Brooke Eisen, a senior director at the Brennan Center for Justice, told Mother Jones even before the new ICE policy was announced, the vast expansion of prison funding will “drastically change the landscape. A vast infrastructure of detention will be built, and actually has already started, even before this bill was signed.”
Congratulations, America! We’ll finally have our very own Gulag Archipelago! Just think of the great literature that may eventually be written by some of the survivors!
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The administration is changing how it interprets a 1996 law that allowed “mandatory detention” of certain criminal aliens like murderers and other violent criminals, keeping them in detention until their deportation cases were completed. But in a July 8 memo, Todd Lyons, (acting) director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) informed the agency that any immigrants who ever entered the country illegally will now be locked up “for the duration of their removal proceedings.” Because the immigration system is horribly backlogged, that can take months or years.
It’s a huge change in immigration cases, as the American Immigration Council’s Aaron Reichlin-Melnick points out, because
The default rule, dating back a century, has been that an undocumented immigrant living here is eligible for bond if not a flight risk or a danger.
That rule was changed in ‘96 for people with criminal records. Now the Trump admin is arguing it also eliminated bond for those who entered illegally.
Well, now we know what ICE plans to do with the $45 billion in new funding the Big Ugly Bill gave it to expand its prison capacity. As Lauren-Brooke Eisen, a senior director at the Brennan Center for Justice, told Mother Jones even before the new ICE policy was announced, the vast expansion of prison funding will “drastically change the landscape. A vast infrastructure of detention will be built, and actually has already started, even before this bill was signed.”
Congratulations, America! We’ll finally have our very own Gulag Archipelago! Just think of the great literature that may eventually be written by some of the survivors!
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