Trump has taken the first step toward confirming one of the worst fears of Dreamers

MIdreamer · 01-05-2017, 08:43 PM

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Donald Trump has taken the first step toward confirming one of the worst fears of undocumented immigrants who’ve taken advantage of a program that grants them temporary stay in the U.S. A Department of Homeland Security memo seen by Reuters reveals that the president-elect’s team is poking around the agency for information about recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA.

President Barack Obama started the program through an executive action in 2012 as a way for undocumented immigrants who meet certain requirements to achieve two-year status in the U.S. to work or attend college. While Trump pledged to “immediately terminate” DACA on his first day in the Oval Office, immigration groups worried he would take his hard-line policy a step further and use personal information gathered through the program to locate undocumented immigrants and pursue deportations. In fact, some have started advising their clients not to apply for DACA protection at all.

In a Dec. 5 meeting with Homeland Security officials, Trump’s transition team inquired if any employees had altered DACA records out of concern for immigrants’ civil liberties, according to the internal memo. The team also requested copies of every immigration executive order and directive since 2009, when Obama first took office.

While Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security that oversees the DACA program, already shares information with Citizenship and Immigrant Services (ICE) when cases involve certain criminal offenses, giving ICE full access to pursue deportations would reverse the original intent of the program. In a private analysis, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center found that no president over the last 50 years had used a program granting relief to undocumented immigrants to later target the same group.

California Rep. Judy Chu sent a letter on Dec. 5, along with 109 other members of Congress, urging President Obama to protect information in the database. In his response on Dec. 30, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson reiterated that for decades the agency has used personal information only for immigration enforcement in limited circumstances of criminality or national security.

“We believe these representations made by the U.S. government, upon which DACA applicants most assuredly relied, must continue to be honored,” he wrote.

On Jan. 20, however, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly will replace Johnson at the helm of Homeland Security. Kelly’s experience with immigration is thin, and organizations unsure of what he’ll prioritize are worried about the future of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.

https://news.vice.com/story/trump-as...r-deportations

Why does he feel the need to ask for our information?

MitchAPalooza23 · 01-05-2017, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by inkd

To give us green cards or to deport us.

You must not have read the article.

Charolastra · 01-05-2017, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by MIdreamer

Why does he feel the need to ask for our information?

As many users here will tell ypu, he just wajts our most current addresses in order to know where to send our green cards on Jan. 20...no , not our green cards, our US naturalization cards and passports!

Dreamer3ooo · 01-05-2017, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by MIdreamer

Why does he feel the need to ask for our information?

I don't think he was "asking for our information," he already has that. He was asking "if any employees had altered DACA records out of concern for immigrants’ civil liberties", most likely as a way to delegitimize the program so that they can attack it more openly, but there is no way our records were "altered" so they found nothing they didn't already have.

MIdreamer · 01-05-2017, 09:06 PM

This is not good guys, I'm scared, somebody hold my hand.

MitchAPalooza23 · 01-05-2017, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by inkd

You must not have read OPs question.

Nah, I did

highhysteric · 01-05-2017, 09:10 PM

We still need due process. They can't just deport us. I've actually been feeling really nervous lately. I sorta feel I know what's coming but it doesn't make it any easier. We are gonna be stripped away from our protection with nothing to protect us from draconian laws.

dado123 · 01-06-2017, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by MIdreamer

Why does he feel the need to ask for our information?

They also requested copy's of every executive action on Dec 5th... so for all we know they are barely reading/analyzing DACA... who knows if they even know what they will do with the program...

_iliketodream · 01-06-2017, 02:05 AM

This doesn't really tell us anything. Stop freaking yourself out.

DogJuiceMan · 01-06-2017, 12:35 PM

Sounds like all undocumenteds/illegals are getting sent out as part of MAGA. I am not comfortable with this, or happy, this is very very dangerous. The reason he's waiting until now is so that all the illegals/undocumenteds don't all pack it up and leave all at once, thereby minimizing the damage to the economy that the sudden hole of labor+ money will do.

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Trump has taken the first step toward confirming one of the worst fears of Dreamers