ICE Deportation Proceeding Tactics Shift Under Trump
Hundreds of people protested outside of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency office in San Francisco this week after ICE officials arrested more than 150 people in sweeps throughout northern and central California.
Before the raids, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf took the unusual step of publicly warning residents — drawing swift criticism from ICE.
Tyche Hendricks, immigration and criminal justice editor for public radio station KQED in San Francisco, explains how the raids played out, and how the community is reacting.
Some ICE detention proceedings begin with dramatic raids, like the kind happening in Oakland. But others begin more quietly, when immigrants least expect they might be taken in.
Mikel Purki is a 21-year-old living in New Jersey. His father and mother were taken into ICE custody when they thought they were going in for a green card.
"This diversity visa, in my opinion, was a complete set up just because from the very beginning, if we were not eligible they would not have let us continue on these steps," said Purki. "We did every single step, we signed every paper, sent in everything, everything came back accepted, perfect, from the first step to the last step."
Leon Fresco is an immigration attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general at the Justice Department. He was head of the Office of Immigration Litigation under the Obama Administration and says apprehension and detention tactics shifted under the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration, and now the Trump Administration, and that subterfuge like the kind Purki describes is possible.
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