10/9/2014
Activists Denounce “Aggressive Tactics” Against Undocumented Foreigners
CHICAGO – Pro-immigrant activists on Wednesday released a study prepared by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network containing complaints against “aggressive tactics” and abuses committed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents against undocumented immigrants.
“The president (Barack Obama) is asking us for patience and for us to wait, but ICE is out of control and persecutes undocumented people with aggressive tactics and impunity,” activist Tania Unzueta, the author of the study entitled “Destructive Delay: A Qualitative Report on the State of Interior Immigration Enforcement and the Human Cost of Postponing Reforms,” told Efe.
According to the statements collected in interviews with activists, legal experts and people immersed in deportation procedures all over the country, Obama’s delay in approving executive measures promised to protect undocumented foreigners has a human cost.
“This report illuminates the inhumane interior Immigration and Customs Enforcement practices that continue unabated while the President postpones action and it highlights the human cost of the delay,” the report says.
“The key findings shed light on an agency driven by one calculated mission, to meet a draconian deportation quota, regardless of the costs to public safety, institutional integrity, moral or constitutional considerations,” it adds.
In Fiscal 2014, which concluded on Sept. 30, the United States deported 438,421 undocumented foreigners, a new historic record that raises the number of expulsions from the country during the Obama administration to more than 2.3 million people.
The report says that ICE has intensified the raids and “collateral arrests” in operations that allow them to question people under the guise of seeking suspects who have nothing to do with immigration activities.
Also, the report says that immigration offices around the country are not applying procedural discretion in a consistent manner and are not considering “positive factors” that could enable them to use discretion in certain cases and prevent some deportations.
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Activists Denounce “Aggressive Tactics” Against Undocumented Foreigners
CHICAGO – Pro-immigrant activists on Wednesday released a study prepared by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network containing complaints against “aggressive tactics” and abuses committed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents against undocumented immigrants.
“The president (Barack Obama) is asking us for patience and for us to wait, but ICE is out of control and persecutes undocumented people with aggressive tactics and impunity,” activist Tania Unzueta, the author of the study entitled “Destructive Delay: A Qualitative Report on the State of Interior Immigration Enforcement and the Human Cost of Postponing Reforms,” told Efe.
According to the statements collected in interviews with activists, legal experts and people immersed in deportation procedures all over the country, Obama’s delay in approving executive measures promised to protect undocumented foreigners has a human cost.
“This report illuminates the inhumane interior Immigration and Customs Enforcement practices that continue unabated while the President postpones action and it highlights the human cost of the delay,” the report says.
“The key findings shed light on an agency driven by one calculated mission, to meet a draconian deportation quota, regardless of the costs to public safety, institutional integrity, moral or constitutional considerations,” it adds.
In Fiscal 2014, which concluded on Sept. 30, the United States deported 438,421 undocumented foreigners, a new historic record that raises the number of expulsions from the country during the Obama administration to more than 2.3 million people.
The report says that ICE has intensified the raids and “collateral arrests” in operations that allow them to question people under the guise of seeking suspects who have nothing to do with immigration activities.
Also, the report says that immigration offices around the country are not applying procedural discretion in a consistent manner and are not considering “positive factors” that could enable them to use discretion in certain cases and prevent some deportations.
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