ICE Detains Yet Another Immigrant Rights Activist in Alleged Retaliation
ICE Detains Yet Another Immigrant Rights Activist in Alleged Retaliation
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While the Trump administration has made deporting immigrants a national priority from the start, they’ve now rejected their original claim to only target “dangerous” undocumented immigrants. Their agenda has become even more political, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents appear to be using deportation as a way to silence dissent against the White House’s current immigration policies.
The tactic of “targeted disappearances” — or undocumented immigrants who are picked up by ICE when they show up for regularly scheduled, mandatory check-ins with immigration officials — has been increasing in recent months, as the administration struggles to make headway on its campaign promises. Unlike previous White Houses, President Donald Trump has rejected efforts to only deport those with criminal charges, and instead has embraced targeting people at hospitals, court hearings and schools.
But now immigration officials are using detention and deportation as a way of squelching their opponents, too. In February, immigration activists filed a suit claiming that ICE was targeting activists as punishment for their speaking out against deportation and demanding movement on DACA.
According to the Hill, the lawsuit reads:
ICE Detains Yet Another Immigrant Rights Activist in Alleged Retaliation