Low hanging fruit…..
Dissuading legal migrants from doing ‘the Right Thing?’
The Trump administration is planning to then place immigrants whose cases are dismissed and who have been in the country less than two years into a fast-track removal process that does not involve a hearing before a judge.
The coordinated operation is the government’s latest attempt to quickly remove people from the country — even if officials have to bypass the courts — as concern grows in the White House that President Donald Trump won’t be able to fulfill his campaign promise to remove millions of undocumented immigrants from the United States….
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Detaining people who are seeking lawful status is “just a cruel tactic to spread fear amongst the community,” said attorney Melissa Shepard with the California-based Immigrant Defenders Law Center. She said that although she expects the majority of her firm’s clients to continue going to court, there are thousands of people fighting their case pro se — representing themselves without an attorney — who could be discouraged. Missing a hearing could result in a deportation order.
Attorney Khiabett Osuna said she was in court Thursday when someone behind her asked for information about the case she was representing.
The man, whom she later identified as a plainclothes ICE agent, had a list he was checking and sat in the court gallery with the public, she said. Outside the courtroom, there were about a half dozen agents with laptops reviewing lists of names.
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