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 Trumps top immigration adviser, who has long argued that HHSs 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.
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,085 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Can't find the link right now...
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)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 sonwho was previously communications director to then-senator Jeff Sessionswrote Trumps 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. Heres what some others remember about Millers formative years.
It seems Stephen pulled his parents to the right!
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)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.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)Yet they could not keep enough info to return all the children to their parents.
crickets
(25,896 posts)Even the word evil doesn't quite cover it, when it's a harm this grievous, a harm that will never heal.
EndlessWire
(6,376 posts)If he's voted out of office, I would boycott any company that hired him. He's such a Nazi.