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Law-abiding mother to be deported to Mexico in sign of Ice policy shift
Source: The Guardian
Law-abiding mother to be deported to Mexico in sign of Ice policy shift
Rushed removal of Maribel Trujillo – who’s been in the US 15 years –
shows agents are now more willing to pick up individuals without
a record of major crime
Ed Pilkington in New York
Thursday 6 April 2017 16.15 BST
The mother of four American children, the youngest of whom is three years old, has been picked up by federal agents at her home in Fairfield, Ohio, and taken into detention ahead of imminent deportation back to her native Mexico.
Maribel Trujillo has been told that her deportation is set for next Tuesday from the US, where she has lived for the past 15 years. Her rushed removal is one of the starkest examples yet of Donald Trump’s push to catch and deport undocumented immigrants who previously were tolerated by the authorities as law-abiding and peaceful members of society.
Though early figures suggest that Trump has not yet increased deportation numbers substantially over the levels sustained by Barack Obama, there is considerable anecdotal evidence that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents are more willing to pick up individuals without a record of major crime.
People who were until recently regarded as of such low priority that it would inflict more harm than good on communities to wrench them from their families are now finding themselves in the deportation pipeline.
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Rushed removal of Maribel Trujillo – who’s been in the US 15 years –
shows agents are now more willing to pick up individuals without
a record of major crime
Ed Pilkington in New York
Thursday 6 April 2017 16.15 BST
The mother of four American children, the youngest of whom is three years old, has been picked up by federal agents at her home in Fairfield, Ohio, and taken into detention ahead of imminent deportation back to her native Mexico.
Maribel Trujillo has been told that her deportation is set for next Tuesday from the US, where she has lived for the past 15 years. Her rushed removal is one of the starkest examples yet of Donald Trump’s push to catch and deport undocumented immigrants who previously were tolerated by the authorities as law-abiding and peaceful members of society.
Though early figures suggest that Trump has not yet increased deportation numbers substantially over the levels sustained by Barack Obama, there is considerable anecdotal evidence that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents are more willing to pick up individuals without a record of major crime.
People who were until recently regarded as of such low priority that it would inflict more harm than good on communities to wrench them from their families are now finding themselves in the deportation pipeline.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/06/ice-immigration-maribel-trujillo-deportation-mexico
