Trump takes the shackles off: Mass deportations begin as the world looks on in outrage

[workinclasszero]

Trump takes the “shackles” off: Mass deportations begin as the world looks on in outrage
ICE agents and other federal cops are having "fun" again, as Trump sets them free to deport whoever they want
Heather Digby Parton Monday, Feb 27, 2017 07:05 AM CST

This report in the New York Times on Friday revealed that government agents are thrilled and having “fun” in their jobs since, as Sean Spicer said, Trump has “taken the shackles off.” Officers told reporters how ecstatic they were to be free to deport any undocumented immigrant they come across:

For those with ICE badges, perhaps the biggest change was the erasing of the Obama administration’s hierarchy of priorities, which forced agents to concentrate on deporting gang members and other violent and serious criminals, and mostly leave everyone else alone.

This clearly indicates that what Trump and his ICE officers call “bad dudes” are all undocumented immigrants, and they want to deport every one of them. Horror stories like the one in which agents arrested a woman seeking shelter from an abusive boyfriend, and the one in which they detained a woman with no criminal history who was in the hospital seeking treatment for a brain tumor, are multiplying. Incidents of Customs and Border Patrol agents demanding that all passengers on a domestic flight provide their IDs when disembarking the airplane have been reported, which is highly unusual.

We hear stories daily of inept customs agents harassing innocent people, like a visiting scholar in Houston who was mistakenly held and nearly sent back to France, or even someone as obviously American as Muhammad Ali Jr., son of the legendary boxer, who was reportedly asked, “Where did you get that name?”

The number of errors in both law and common sense among customs and border officials since Trump first implemented his ban does not bode well for an orderly or professional implementation. Now, according to Foreign Policy Magazine, the desperate need for thousands more agents has made it difficult to find people who can pass polygraph tests and background checks — so the administration wants to drop those requirements. What could possibly go wrong?

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/27/trump-takes-the-shackles-off-mass-deportations-begin-as-the-world-looks-on-in-horror/

[world wide wally]

1. Remember when Trump lied about deportations being done "humanely"?

[dalton99a]

3. And they all believed him.

“You’re going to have a deportation force, and you’re going to do it humanely."
- Nov. 11, 2015

[OldHippieChick]

2. "Drop those requirements."

So, let's see, no background check. Hmm, what indeed could go wrong...

[ProudLib72]

4. The only requirement

is that they don't target any tRump businesses. He needs to keep his low wage staff.

[iluvtennis]

5. How true. What drumpf is doing breaking families apart is DEPLORABLE. May he rot in hell.

[Initech]

8. "Deplorable" is being too kind.

There's much uglier words I would use, but as they say in Animal House, they're so profound and disgusting that the decorum prohibits me from listing them here.

[Initech]

7. This is not the America I grew up in.

[nini]

9. So there is not presumption of innocence anymore?

You get sent away before you can prove you have the right to be here?

[fmdaddio]

10. Better Angels

This is going to get ugly fast. All members here who are members of any faith based organization have to strongly pressure their congregations to speak out against this. This could help push public opinion against this awful activity. Faith leaders need to speak out against this.

[randr]

11. Worse than twitler are the minions willing to do his bidding

Can't happen here? Don't bet on it!

[justgamma]

12. So while they are deporting

the woman with the brain tumor, there are "bad dudes" that got away. It's easier to concentrate on the helpless ones, and letting the criminals alone.

[MontanaMama]

13. Ask Muhammed Ali, Jr.

He was detained at a Florida airport because of his name. No one is safe. We have to stand together or we will fall apart. Literally.

[NoMoreRepugs]

14. When will the bounty rewards for turning in undocumented individuals start???

I think it's only a matter of time...

[workinclasszero]

18. America will be full of snitches

Informing on their neighbors as was done in Nazi Germany with the Gestapo.

And you will have agents of the government on every street corner airport/train station asking PoC for their papers.

Welcome to Trump's Amerikkka citizen, move along.

[world wide wally]

19. Not to mention a well armed "militia" in the form of what we always called "rednecks" (in the most

derogatory sense of the word.)

[workinclasszero]

20. Brownshirts are what they are

[Lucinda]

15. ...

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. these people are truly monsters.

[n2doc]

17. My guess is that they will leave the criminals alone

That serves two purposes: 1, keeps up the level of fear and outrage whenever any of them commits a crime
2, much easier and safer to arrest a mom and kids than a gun-carrying gang member.

ICE needs to be purged of these monsters when dems take back congress and the WH.

[muntrv]

21. So Twittler wants to nationalize Joe Arpaio's posse?