Trump’s new Deportation Frenzy which began last week has already started to have some life and death consequences. From the New York Daily News.
An undocumented woman in desperate need of brain surgery has been forcibly removed from a Texas hospital — and her relatives in New York fear she could lose her life, a family representative said early Thursday.
Sara Beltran-Hernandez was detained after trying to migrate to the Big Apple from El Salvador without proper documentation in November 2015, family spokeswoman Melissa Zuniga told the Daily News. Beltran-Hernandez has been held at the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas ever since, as her Queens-based family members have tried to petition for her asylum.
Earlier this month, Beltran-Hernandez, 26, began complaining about severe headaches, nosebleeds and memory loss. Last week, she collapsed and was subsequently taken to a hospital. Doctors diagnosed her with a brain tumor and determined that she needed surgery.
But Zuniga told The News that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents forcibly removed Beltran-Hernandez from the Huguley Hospital in Fort Worth on Wednesday evening.
"They had her tied up from hands and ankles," Zuniga said. "She was brought in a wheelchair and is not being given treatment even though her nose continues to bleed and she has told them her head is exploding."
Exactly why Beltran-Hernandez was removed from the Hospital and her surgery cancelled has not be fully explained or when and how she will receive the treatment she needed.
Apparently this is how ICE rolls in Drumpf’s new “Great” America.
Recently ICE released their new Implementation Plan (pdf) pursuant to Trump’s executive orders on Immigration.
The President has determined that the lawful detention of aliens arriving in the United States and deemed inadmissible or otherwise described in section 235(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) pending a final determination of whether to order them removed, including determining eligibility for immigration relief, is the most efficient means by which to enforce the immigration laws at our borders. Detention also prevents such aliens from committing crimes while at large in the United States, ensures that aliens will appear for their removal proceedings,and substantially increases the likelihood that aliens lawfully ordered removed will be removed.
But the truth is that even if Trump increases expansion of enforcement — which was already working at record rates and capacity removing 240,550 people.
ICE Removals per year 2008-2016
58% of whom were convicted criminals and apprehending another 415,816 at the border during FY2016— it’s not likely to increase the rate of convicted criminals being removed but instead is more likely to increase the number of minor offenders and those merely accused by not convicted pulled into the massive backlog that exists in the detention and hearing process.
Furthermore, according to EOIR information provided to DHS, there are more than 534,000 cases currently pending on immigration court dockets nationwide- a record high. By contrast, according to some reports, there were nearly 168,000 cases pending at the end of fiscal year (FY) 2004 when section 235(b)(l)(A)(i) was last expanded.2 This represents an increase of more than 200% in the number of cases pending completion. The average removal case for an alien who is not detained has been pending for more than two years before an immigration judge. In some immigration courts, aliens who are not detained will not have their cases heard by an immigration judge for as long as five years. This unacceptable delay affords removable aliens with no plausible claim for relief to remain unlawfully in the United States for many years.
To ensure the prompt removal of aliens apprehended soon after crossing the border illegally, the Department will publish in the Federal Register a new Notice Designating Aliens Subject to Expedited Removal Under Section 235(b)(l)(a)(iii) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which may, to the extent I determine is appropriate, depart from the limitations set forth in the designation currently in force. I direct the Commissioner of CBP and the Director of ICE to conform the use of expedited removal procedures to the designations made in this notice upon its publication.
The day to day capacity of ICE detention facilities is only 34,000 beds which means most of those pending removal are released and monitored pending their eventually hearing. Expedited removals which do not require a hearing can only be used on persons convicted of an aggravated felony by law, but contrary to the claims of Trump and his supporters those numbers are actually quite low.
They would have you believe that most of the 534,000 pending cases all represent a significant threat to American yet only undocumented migrants have only killed 121 Americans like Kate Stienle who died after being struck by a ricochet from a gun that was fired accidentally, between 2010 and 2014. Instead of pointing out that this was a tragic accident people like Kayleigh McEnany repeatedly harp on the immigration status of the person who accidentally fired the fatal shot when he attempted to pick up a discarded gun.
That was a horrible tragic accident, but they just can’t stop themselves from fear-mongering over things like that.
Anderson Cooper: Criminals were already being targeted for deportation, the Obama Administration had a policy of going after hardened criminals.
McEnany; Right. But there were also criminal illegal immigrants who were released into society under the Obama Administration [they can only hold 33,000 at a time]. In fact it was to the tune of 19,000 in 2015 alone. [out of about 400,000 who were detained for an average of 29 days during the year]. Look I agree with Anna entirely that most illegal immigrants are hard working people like in that piece you just did, like the father who wants a better life for his daughter, but I think sometimes in this discussion we forget about another population of people. And it’s a population that is address in the executive order and that is victims of immigrant crimes like Sabine Durden whose beautiful son Dominic was killed at the hands of an illegal immigrant who was not supposed to be here, who had two violent felonies, grand theft auto, and was deported to Guatemala and came back and she lost her son’s life. This immigration executive order, we left this out of this, has an office for these individuals. These are American citizens who have a right to life, who want to gather information on illegal immigrants, who in some cases like in the case of Dominic were murdered their child.
For the record Sabine’s son Dominic wasn’t a child. he was 30 years old, and he wasn’t viciously murdered, he died in a motorcycle crash.
Durden’s son, Dominic, was killed four years ago in a fatal motorcycle crash. On July 12, 2012, Dominic, 30, was on his way to work when an illegal immigrant driving an unlicensed pickup truck took a wrong turn. Dominic was killed instantly.
The driver, Juan Zacarias Lopez Tzun, was an illegal immigrant from Guatemala with a record of drunk driving convictions. His initial sentence included nine months’ jail time, five years of probation, and a restitution fee of $18,800.
So that’s not how Kayleigh portrays it is the act of some rampaging mass murdering mad man. About 10,000 people are killed by impaired drivers every year, most of those drivers aren’t undocumented, a point that was next made by Paul Begala.
Begala: The immigrant population has a lower crime rate than the American born population. That’s a tragic case, we want to punish that person, we want them out. The immigration policy institute says there are 300,000 felons who are undocumented in this country. We should target them and deport them. That’s what President Obama was doing, he deported far more than 300,000, he was the deportation president. He was very tough on this. I think what Trump is doing, and what you’re comment is doing is to use scare tactics to incite fear…
McEnany interrupting: No.
Begala: Excuse me… to say that this animal to representative of this entire population. It’s like saying “Dylann Roof is a right-wing white guy, so lets deport right-wing white guys.” Some of my best friends are right-wing white guys, but Dylann Roof is an animal that committed an act of terrorism.
McEnany: Citizens of this country have a right to life. [And non-citizens don’t?]
Begala: Of course, and so did those wonderful people in that Church.
McEnany: When you have 108 people with murder convictions that were released into society...
Actually it was 121 immigrants who were released by ICE who were later convicted of murder, only 2 who were released had previous murder convictions.
In all, some 121 immigrants who were freed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement between 2010 and 2014 have since been charged with a total of 135 homicide-related crimes. Another three immigrants were charged with murders in 2015, bringing to 124 the total number of murder suspects the government had, then released.
That's the second fear-mongering lie from McEnany in less than 3 minutes.
McEnany: American citizens lost their lives because of people who shouldn't have been here.
Begala: Right, so for that we're going to deport 11 Million people, were going to have 10,000 new ICE agents?
Paul is dead right, this is fear-mongering. This is the fostering of false panic in order to justify the persecution of largely innocent law abiding citizens who simply didn’t get a piece of paper before crossing a line in the desert. The desperate danger presented to Americans by immigrants has been grossly exaggerated. Yes, Americans have a right to life, and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But so too do immigrants particularly when they reach U.S. soil and are under the jurisdiction of American law as stated in the 14th Amendment. We don’t just throw people out of the country without just cause and due process. We don’t need ICE deputizing local police as their jackbooted Gestapo rounding up people as they pick up their kids from school, or at their place or work, or yanking them out of their homes to be detained for the next two or three years in for-profit prisons until they are deported and forcibly separated from their families.
Kate Stienle had a right to live. Dominic Durden had a right to live as well, but their tragic losses are not the fault of Sara Beltran-Hernandez who shouldn’t have her right to live sacrificed on the altar of false fear.
