{"id":295602,"date":"2017-02-19T13:33:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T12:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/immigrant-round-ups-stir-fears\/"},"modified":"2017-02-19T13:33:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T12:33:02","slug":"immigrant-round-ups-stir-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/immigrant-round-ups-stir-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant Round-ups Stir Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>During last fall\u2019s campaign, Donald Trump vowed to get rid of the \u201cbad hombres\u201d among the 11 million undocumented people in the U.S., but recent raids appear far less targeted, reports Dennis J Bernstein.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Dennis J Bernstein<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump is keeping his promise to go after undocumented people in the United States, with recent reports of sweeps by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (or ICE) sending waves of fear through the Latino and other immigrant communities in California, Texas and Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had justified the need for such round-ups as necessary to get rid of \u201cbad hombres\u201d but immigrant advocates say the raids are indiscriminate, rounding up as many undocumented people as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is now clear the Trump Administration is not concerned with public safety,\u201d said California State Senate President Pro Tempore Kevin De Leon. \u201cThey are only focused on ripping hard-working men, women, and children from their families and communities. Mass deportations will not make us safer, instead they will simply undermine our state\u2019s economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22438\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-US_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement_SWAT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-US_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement_SWAT-300x200.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22438\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-US_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement_SWAT-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-US_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement_SWAT-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-US_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement_SWAT-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-US_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement_SWAT.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22438\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-US_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement_SWAT-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/800px-US_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement_SWAT-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-US_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement_SWAT-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-US_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement_SWAT-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/800px-US_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement_SWAT.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) SWAT officers. (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>De Leon issued <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sd24.senate.ca.gov\/news\/2017-02-10-statement-california-senate-leader-responds-new-information-ice\">a statement<\/a><\/span>\u00a0critical of ICE actions on Feb. 10, saying he had been misled by ICE assurances that \u00a0refugee advocates had exaggerated when they claimed that more than 100 people had been arrested in raids across Southern California a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate that ICE finally disclosed details about their recent raids, but stunned to learn that ICE\u2019s public comments made [on Feb. 9] were blatantly false,\u201d said De Leon, noting that ICE later confirmed that it had arrested 160 people.<\/p>\n<p>De Leon, perhaps the most influential elected Latino official in the state of California, called on ICE to work more effectively with the communities of California that De Leon represents. \u201cIf you want to ensure ongoing safety of the public and law enforcement personnel, my recommendation is to drop the mass deportation threats roiling our communities and instead focus strictly on dangerous felons,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Among the groups most targeted for mass deportation are the undocumented day laborers and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2017\/02\/18\/immigrant-round-ups-stir-fears\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During last fall\u2019s campaign, Donald Trump vowed to get rid of the \u201cbad hombres\u201d among the 11 million undocumented people in the U.S., but recent raids appear far less targeted, reports Dennis J Bernstein. \u00a0 By Dennis J Bernstein President Donald Trump is keeping his promise to go after undocumented people in the United States, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-295602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}