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Immigration Update: Trump Ramps Up Deportations

posted onApril 30, 2017
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Article snippet: Posted at 6:00 pm on April 29, 2017 by streiff As I’ve posted in the past, the Trump administration’s combining stepped up enforcement with skillful public information campaigns in Central America have reduced attempts to cross the border with Mexico to near record levels without spending a single dollar on a wall or on more Border Patrol agents. In short, it shows that our current laws are sufficient to make major headway towards border security so long as someone, like Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, has the guts to enforce them. One of the biggest changes was brought on by Trump’s executive order which basically changed everything about the rules Obama had in place. While ICE focuses on deporting criminal aliens, there is no safe harbor for any illegal. Democrats in Congress and people who are in favor of unfettered illegal immigration (there is a lot of overlap in that Venn Diagram) are angry but Kelly and his department are not backing down: Link to the full article to read more

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