ICE shortfalls compel Trump to expand the list of deportation prey

A map of all the affected countries in Africa subject to the travel ban. This is basically a complete block on all immigration from the majority of Africa.

Across the country, ICE officers accustomed to operating below the radar have been thrust into the spotlight by Trump's aggressive deportation orders. The "largest deportation program of criminals in the history of America" has neither the numbers nor the capability to hunt down actual criminals. To fulfill their quotas, the racism must expand and intensify to a non-criminal population.

Trump is expanding the previous 19-country travel ban to a whopping 39 countries (plus the Palestinian Authority), and appears to expand a block on legal immigration to now include spouses, children, and parents of U.S. citizens, who were previously exempted.

Also ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers.

The list was discovered by attorney Arlene Amarante who said “One of the troubling patterns I suppose that I recognized, was that a large number of these practitioners on the list were people of color.”

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The Trump administration has said it aims to deport 1 million people per year, but is likely to fall short of that goal by one third, given current trends.

As Trump misses deportation goals, ICE pushes migrants to give up their cases

Under pressure in detention, immigrants choose deportation

Trump’s vast immigration crackdown is increasingly relying on threats to separate families and other aggressive tactics to pressure people into accepting deportation - even if they have submitted legal claims that in previous administrations would have allowed them to stay in the country,

These tactics include threats of jail sentences for resisting a deportation order or crossing the border illegally - crimes that previously were rarely prosecuted and would lead to separation from children - as well as prolonged detention with no opportunity to seek release and deportation to far-flung third countries, Reuters found.

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