Another homerun from
LIZ SHELD:
“…Someone “leaked” that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be conducting raids this past weekend to remove criminal aliens from the U.S. The targets are illegal immigrants who have been through the legal system and ordered removed by a court. There was a media and Democrat meltdown because it’s racist to remove criminals from the U.S. and its racist to expect people who are released into the U.S. to respond to court orders and it’s racist to expect people to appear at their asylum hearings.
“These are individuals who have come into this country illegally, had the opportunity to make an asylum claim in front of an immigration judge, and most of them chose not to avail themselves at the opportunity, and didn’t even show up to their first hearing,” ICE Acting Director Matthew Albence said.
Democrats, especially Democrats who are trying to win the nomination for president, were dishing out advice on how to avoid removal and hide from the ICE agents. Amazing. So what happened with the raids?
An official who spoke with The Wall Street Journal confirmed ICE was active Saturday in two New York City neighborhoods — Brooklyn’s Sunset Park and the Manhattan’s Harlem section. Federal immigration authorities were unable to make any arrests, however, they reportedly plan on coming back to those same locations at a later time.
NPR reports there was no sign of any raids. “The ACLU has not heard reports of any raids today,” Ruthie Epstein, the American Civil Liberties Union’s deputy director for immigration policy, told NPR.
Jake Tapper of CNN asked U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services acting Director Ken Cuccinelli if children would be separated from their parents in the raids. Cuccinelli refused to say. “I’m not going to say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ to anything like that because then certain people out there can write themselves off the list or find a way to play a loophole,“ Cuccinelli said on CNN’s clown show. “And the loopholes in our legal system are what we’ve been screaming to be fixed.” Americans who go to jail for crimes are also separated from their children.