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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Fri Dec 20, 2019, 07:54 PM Dec 2019

Under secret Stephen Miller plan, ICE to use data on migrant children to expand deportation efforts

Source: WaPo

By Nick Miroff
Dec. 20, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. EST

The White House sought this month to embed immigration enforcement agents within the U.S. refugee agency that cares for unaccompanied migrant children, part of a long-standing effort to use information from their parents and relatives to target them for deportation, according to six current and former administration officials.

Though senior officials at the Department of Health and Human Services rejected the attempt, they agreed to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to collect fingerprints and other biometric information from adults seeking to claim migrant children at government shelters. If those adults are deemed ineligible to take custody of a child, ICE could then use their information to target them for arrest and deportation.

The arrangement appears to circumvent laws that restrict the use of the refu­gee program for deportation enforcement; Congress has made it clear that it does not want those who come forward as potential sponsors of minors in U.S. custody to be frightened away by possible deportation. But, in the reasoning of senior Trump administration officials, adults denied custody of children lose their status as “potential sponsors” and are fair game for arrest.

The new initiative has not been announced publicly. It was developed by Stephen Miller, President Trump’s top immigration adviser, who has long argued that HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement is being exploited by parents who hire smugglers to bring their children into the United States illegally. The agency manages a network of shelters that care for underage migrants who cross the border without a parent and tries to identify sponsors eligible to take custody of the minors — typically a family member.

Previous Trump administration attempts to give ICE more access to the refu­gee program have generated significant opposition, because it potentially forces migrant parents to choose between reclaiming their children and risking arrest. Administration officials acknowledge the arrangement will instill fear among migrant parents, but they say it will deter families from having their children cross into the United States illegally.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/under-secret-stephen-miller-plan-ice-to-use-data-on-migrant-children-to-expand-deportation-efforts/2019/12/20/36975b34-22a8-11ea-bed5-880264cc91a9_story.html



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B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
5. Actually, I read that Miller's parents are supportive of his ideology on race.
Sat Dec 21, 2019, 04:32 AM
Dec 2019

Can't find the link right now...

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
7. Here you go!
Sat Dec 21, 2019, 04:32 PM
Dec 2019
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/stephen-miller-samohi-oral-history/

Born in 1985, Stephen is the middle child of Michael and Miriam, who, if they were once liberal, as has been reported, have not been so for well over a decade. The Millers manage a real-estate investment company and own and operate a handful of commercial properties as well as about 2,500 residential units under the name California Villages. As one family friend told me, Stephen pulled his parents to the right. The Millers supported Ted Cruz for president; they attended the 2016 Republican convention and were thrilled that their son—who was previously communications director to then-senator Jeff Sessions—wrote Trump’s acceptance speech. Friends say they were supportive parents to all three of their children. Their daughter, Alexis Miller Buese, is a partner at a Century City law firm, and their younger son, Jacob, is a litigator in Manhattan. Here’s what some others remember about Miller’s formative years.

It seems Stephen pulled his parents to the right!

Evolve Dammit

(16,632 posts)
9. So. They are Jewish and are totally down with his putting kids in cages and encouraging racism as
Sat Dec 21, 2019, 07:27 PM
Dec 2019

part of US national policy. Wow. Just incredible. Perhaps they need to re-visit their families origins and history particularly in the 1930's-1940's. Or maybe that's fake news for them at this point. In any case, I have nothing but ill will to wish against who Stephen Miller is at this point, and anyone who enables his Nazi ass.

keithbvadu2

(36,362 posts)
3. Yet they could not keep enough info to return all the children to their parents.
Fri Dec 20, 2019, 09:46 PM
Dec 2019

Yet they could not keep enough info to return all the children to their parents.

crickets

(25,896 posts)
4. I know. I just don't understand the sociopathy of some people.
Sat Dec 21, 2019, 12:55 AM
Dec 2019

Even the word evil doesn't quite cover it, when it's a harm this grievous, a harm that will never heal.

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