Link here: Before Trump’s purge at DHS, top officials challenged plans for mass family arrests
In the weeks before they were ousted last month, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and top immigration enforcement official Ronald Vitiello challenged a secret White House plan to arrest thousands of parents and children in a blitz operation against migrants in 10 major U.S. cities.
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The sprawling operation included an effort to fast-track immigration court cases, allowing the government to obtain deportation orders against those who did not show for their hearings — officials said 90 percent of those targeted were found deportable in their absence. The subsequent arrests would have required coordinated raids against parents with children in their homes and neighborhoods.
Apparently Stephen Miller had a real jones for this plan, and it’s not like those objecting had a problem with SWAT style raids targeting families in major cities across America, according to the article: “DHS officials said the objections Vitiello and Nielsen raised regarding the targeted ‘at large’ arrests were mostly operational and logistical and not as a result of ethical concerns about arresting families an immigration judge had ordered to be deported.”
Plenty of people on this site have a better grasp of history than I do, but this sounds like the kind of mass-thug kick-in-the-doors purge behavior that starts with so-called “out” and “other” groups, but can quickly spread to targeting any dissenters. And armed raids on families, in houses with kids in them?
Anyway, the plan is apparently still under consideration. They just haven’t worked out the kinks yet.