Immigration Impact

I think people often forget that even though these people came here illegally, a majority of them submit themselves immediately to authorities to enter into the immigration court. Nine out of ten times, they are just given a future court date and released on their on recognizance legally into the United States (typically with some restrictions on movement). Why? Because that's how the system was legally designed to work. You want them to stay here, because some % cases are valid (a lot surrender at ports of entry). So then you must ask yourself, what went wrong? Cartels figured out they could break the system by overwhelming it, yet we had a clear cut way to solve it. The parties politicized the topic by not doing anything about it... and now here we are. Question: When Obama/Biden supported legislation to hire more immigration judges to work through the backlog of cases, did you support the legislation as well? There are for more just ways to handle this. These people are tyrant oligarchs, and need to be treated as such. Today's it's "those people", tomorrow it will be "your people". https://immigrationimpact.com/2015/05/21/bi-partisan-house-bill-recomm… https://www.axios.com/2024/12/31/biden-immigration-courts-deportations

I am aware of some US citizens being deported by mistake under previous administrations, but there was a general consensus that those were genuine mistakes, examples of negligence rather than policy: https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citizens/ However the current administration is explicitly considering the idea of deliberately deporting citizens: https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/trump-l…

Trump himself has said he wants to end birthright citizenship. EVERYONE in the US is at risk. If you think you're safe, you aren't. This is what fascists do. https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5327552/trump-takes-birthright-ci… https://immigrationimpact.com/2025/02/07/breaking-down-trump-end-birth…

Much like everything else in this administration, smarter people have already been screaming from the rooftops about how expensive and impractical it is[1] but everyone has to learn the hard way. [1] https://immigrationimpact.com/2025/02/07/sending-migrants-guantanamo-b…

> They were flown across the country by the previous admin They or their sponsor typically pay. It's usually Greyhound. Even if the government were to pay for a commercial plane ticket, it would be far cheaper than arranging military transport to Guantanamo. https://immigrationimpact.com/2022/02/02/biden-secret-flights-of-migra… > Sanctuary cities force people to pay for illegals How? They pay nothing. They don't even pay for local law enforcement to assist ICE. That's much cheaper than deportation. I'm not saying that it's good policy, but it is inarguably cheaper. > The reason behind is here: They don't want them in the US while they await deportation and are willing to pay much more in order to say that. That doesn't sound like a good reason to me. I'd rather do the cheaper thing and spend one minute explaining why.

USCIS: https://immigrationimpact.com/2023/01/17/uscis-funding-crisis-too-big-…

Slim to none? Even US citizens get deported by mistake, forget legal immigrants. https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citizens/ https://www.google.com/search?q=us+citizen+deported+mistake

Not regular but happened before https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citizens/

Funny, I stayed at a hotel in a small town in Texas recently that was across the street from a construction site. The hotel owner said that since Trump was elected that occupancy was way down. Lots of the workers at the construction site were undocumented and stayed at the hotel. Since Trump's election, nothing had happened at the construction site and the hotel's future was in question. > These adjacent communities get hit twice because migrant labor also decreases salaries for locals. If the migrant labor is filling in labor gaps, then no, this is not true. Seems the evidence also disagrees: "Consistently, economists have found that an increase in immigration rates does not cause a drop in wages for U.S.-born workers" [1] Please provide evidence that your statement is true even in any instance, let alone generally true. The economic impact of migrant labor is quite real, and positive, in terms of taxes and money spent back in the community. [1]https://immigrationimpact.com/2024/07/09/immigrants-do-not-take-americ…

> (Also, if the Holocaust had only consisted of mass deportations it wouldn't be nearly as bad or remembered. Have some perspective.) We already tried this and have seen the results. We rounded up and deported more than a million Mexicans twice in our history. It is remembered, California apologized for their hand in it a couple of years ago. Millions of families could be uprooted, torn apart and be left stranded without ID, possessions or money[1] and left to die[2]. Mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, friends, neighbors, co-workers and classmates could disappear. My perspective is that 'exactly as bad as the Holocaust' isn't the bar to pass to be a potential tragedy. I didn't make a comparison to the Holocaust, but since we're there: deportation and mass ordered removal is part of what made the Holocaust a tragedy. It took years of deportations (of the traditional sense), forced relocations and imprisonment before people were shipped to the ovens in droves. [1] http://immigrationimpact.com/2016/04/07/deported-immigrants-possession… [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wetback#Consequences

As my post said 'homeland security' (read: Suspected terrorist) charges who are not part of the normal court system. But this also happens to immigrants or those stopped at the border in general. [0] The right to counsel is being eroded at the edges (apparently not applied to non-citizens whenever possible). Over the past year, the American Immigration Council, along with the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), has documented instances where the DHS immigration agencies—Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)—have deprived noncitizens of access to counsel. For example, ICE also has taken the position that there is no right to consult with a lawyer during an interrogation. Likewise, many CBP offices outright deny access to all lawyers. [1] [0] http://law.psu.edu/_file/Immigrants/LAC_Right_to_Counsel.pdf [1] http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/01/23/its-time-to-improve-noncitizen…