Sadly, we’ll probably see more of this, after Trump’s deportation-on-steroids memo yesterday outlined a policy that could send any undocumented immigrant to Mexico for the slightest “crime,” including a traffic ticket. Which means Latino drivers can probably expect a lot more stops for a missing tail light.
Guadalupe Olivas Valencia, 45, jumped from a bridge at the border after he was deported for the third time… Witnesses said Mr Olivas was shouting that he did not want to return to Mexico and seemed to be in severe distress.
He jumped off a bridge just yards from El Chaparral, the main border crossing point between the US city of San Diego and Tijuana in Mexico.
Many other deported immigrants are also “in severe distress,” after being sent to a country they have not been to since they were children. Some have no family, friends or jobs waiting, while others don’t even speak the language. Still others are separated from their children, who are U.S. citizens.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is meeting with Mexican officials today, so maybe he can explain to them the part in the new DHS guidelines that says the U.S. will send all undocumented immigrants to Mexico, even if they’re not Mexican and have never lived there. That should be an interesting conversation.
The executive order also instructed DHS to enforce of a little-used provision of the law to return asylum seekers to the contiguous territory from which they entered the US, namely Mexico. The measure would potentially send non-Mexican asylum seekers from Central America over the southern border while they await asylum proceedings instead of letting them wait in the US,
a policy with which Mexico would likely take issue.
Ya think? First Mexico will pay for the wall, now they’ll take all of our immigrants, whether they’re Mexican or not. And while the new guidelines say the 750,000 or so DACA recipients won't be deported anytime soon, I wouldn’t feel comfortable knowing this administration has my name and address. So it begins.