Acting DHS secretary appears wary
By Aaron Blake
June 22 at 7:30 AM
... Trump is trying to quickly implement another controversial immigration plan, by launching Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids to quickly deport undocumented families, starting Sunday ...
... acting Homeland Security secretary ... has advised against such a quick implementation ...
The message from McAleenan seems rather simple: This risks distracting from some very real progress that we’re making and also diverts resources to a less-pressing issue. It’s an entirely logical stance. The situation on the southern border, after all, has reached crisis levels, according to Trump and his administration. McAleenan has argued the recently struck deal to get Mexico to halt the flow of migrants to the border will be a far more effective way to get the border surge under control. This operation deals with a separate but related issue of undocumented immigrants already within the country’s interior ...
... the speed of the operation’s implementation harks back to the travel ban, and the possibility of unhelpful images looms large. Children behind chain-link fences without their parents was one thing. What happens when ICE officials are recorded showing up to deport a family — or, as McAleenan reportedly warned, it results in families being separated yet again? The potential pitfalls of such a large and fast operation are numerous.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/22/trumps-acting-dhs-secretary-appears-wary-immigration-raids-that-says-lot/?utm_term=.657e5f00efb6
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