Arizona Mother Deported to Mexico After Living in U.S. For 21 Years

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14. ICE has been FORCED to go back to the days before President Obama

Before President Obama took office ICE was forced to go after non criminal aliens. After President Obama took office he instructed ICE to stop removing people who were not a threat. de Rayos was picked up in a raid not by ICE but by Maricopa deputies on Arpaio's orders who put her into the ICE enforcement system. She reported regularly and no threat of removal.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/us/phoenix-guadalupe-garcia-de-rayos.html?_r=0

The Obama administration made a priority of deporting people who were deemed a threat to public or national safety, had ties to criminal gangs, or had committed serious felony offenses or a series of misdemeanor crimes. Ms. Rayos did not fit any of these criteria, which is why she was allowed to stay in the United States even after a judge issued a deportation order against her in 2013.

That all changed under Mr. Trump. Among the 18 executive orders that he has issued since taking office on Jan. 20 is one stipulating that undocumented immigrants convicted of any criminal offense — and even those who have not been charged but are believed to have committed “acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense” — have become a priority for deportation.

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Ms. Rayos was working at Golfland Sunsplash in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix, when Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies swooped in on Dec. 16, 2008, arresting her and several other employees on charges of suspicion of identity theft and using forged documents to obtain employment. The raid was one of the first ordered by Joe Arpaio, who was sheriff at the time, under an Arizona law authorizing sanctions against employers who knowingly hired undocumented immigrants.

Republicans like to make the argument that when they outlaw guns only the outlaws have guns. When they start moving against undocumented workers under Trump only the law abiding ones will show up to ICE. Trump will bog ICE down in pursuing the ones that we want to stay rather than pursuing those with criminal convictions and gang affiliations.

Welcome to America.