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If you want to live in this country, you have to respect our laws, and that starts at our borders,
What he's saying ... Moreno said in a statement
Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest. The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense,
acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman said in a statement
Refugees go through one of the most rigorous vetting processes in the world, and many are now seeing their travel canceled just days, or even hours, before they were set to begin their new lives in the United States. It’s utterly heartbreaking,
said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global RefugeThey were telegraphing this from the very beginning,
said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors stricter immigration policiesI want to see more people coming here legally. But at the same time, I'm against all these caravans coming (to the border), with thousands and thousands of people at one time."
The Democrat supporter said
But there's that fine line between gathering information on people living in the U.S. illegally and automatically deporting them,
he addedWe got lucky, we got an appointment,
one asylum seeker told CNN
This action could have devastating consequences for immigrant families and their children, including US citizen children, deterring them from receiving medical attention, seeking out disaster relief, attending school, and carrying out everyday activities,
Olivia Golden, the interim executive director of the Center for Law and Social Policy, said in a statement
What has helped calm my nerves is knowing that the school stands with us and promised to inform us if it’s not safe at school,
said Carmen, who asked her last name not be used for fear of being targeted by immigration agentsShould ICE presence near such locations become more common, the likelihood also increases that children could witness a parent’s detention, arrest, or other encounters with ICE agents,
Golden saidI don’t want to say when, but it’s going to happen. It has to happen, or we’re not going to have a country left,
he saidMaybe we will, maybe we won’t, but what I am concerned for the most is the effect it will have on migrant communities. The fear it is instilling both on migrant communities that are already in the US and have been living here and are essential part of the communities and people who are in transit attempting to arrive to the United States,
Cosmes saidWe have a lot of refugees here and they’re all panicking. They’re very fearful,
Pajanor said
I want our families to feel confident they can send their children to school; we are not going to interact with ICE,
Chicago Public Schools CEO Martinez told WLSWe started attending know your rights training so that we could know how to defend ourselves and our students, if anyone tries to, if ICE tries to communicate with us or potentially detain somebody,
Erin, a teacher at Chicago Public Schools, told CNN affiliate WLSI will end the practice of catch and release.”
On Monday, Trump said during his inaugural addressAdditionally, CPD does not document immigration status and does not share such information with federal authorities,
the Chicago Police Department addedI don’t think that with the volume and magnitude of the problem that they’re going to make as much progress on it as they would like to unless they first focus in on stopping people from coming across the borders,
he saidThe Democrats say, ‘Please don’t call them animals. They’re humans.’ I said, ‘No, they’re not humans. They’re not humans. They’re animals,’
he said in April, while referring to the Riley caseThe president cannot, with a stroke of a pen, write the 14th Amendment out of existence, period,
said New Jersey Attorney-General Matt Platkin