The far-left American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is advising cities and states on how to help illegal aliens avoid deportation under President-elect Donald Trump.
President Trump is ordering incoming border czar Thomas Homan to carry out the largest deportation program in U.S. history. There are currently approximately 11 million to 22 million illegal aliens residing in the United States, approximately 1.5 million of whom are subject to final orders of deportation.
ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said Rachel Maddow's “Game Plan” this week focuses on how far-left organizations can best pressure and advise city and state officials to help illegal aliens avoid deportation. He said that he had formulated a
“We have this whole plan to surround firewalls for freedom…The idea is that these local officials can actually play a key role in deterring abuse of the guardrails,” Romero said. said.
For example, when they are trying to detain and deport all hundreds of thousands of people, up to a million people. It is an operation in which they have the legal authority to conduct a raid. But logistics will require a mayor, governor, or city council. Are you going to give them access to police officers and prisons or where are you going to house all these people? [Emphasis added]
Romero said the ACLU is calling on cities and states to pardon convicted illegal aliens and ensure that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are not allowed in jails and jails. He said there was.
Romero said cities and states “should sever ties with the federal government when it comes to immigration enforcement.”
We need to make sure they are banned from our prisons and detention centers. We should start thinking about what actions we can take to pardon immigrants with criminal records. Because they were driving with a suspended license. Let's move them away from danger… We have to swarm our allies in these locations… There is an overall strategy to this. [Emphasis added]
Homan, meanwhile, has made it clear to cities and states planning to fight the incoming Trump administration that ICE officers will continue to do their jobs regardless.
“If you're in this country illegally, you have a problem. It's not okay to be in this country illegally. It's not okay to be in this country illegally,” Homan told the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) this week. . “It's no good hiring illegal immigrants.”
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