JoeB131
Diamond Member
Among the thousands of rapists, drug dealers, murderers and shoplifters deported so far, how many farm workers were mixed in?
Probably most of them.
Most of the people being deported aren't charged with more serious crime.
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But, while Trump administration officials are highlighting the arrests of undocumented criminals, the latest news suggests that many of those detained are restaurant workers, house cleaners and others who have committed no criminal offenses. Being an undocumented immigrant is a civil offense, not a crime, unless the person had earlier been deported and re-entered the United States illegally, immigration lawyers say. On Sunday’s nationwide immigration raids, immigration agents detained 613 people with criminal records, and 566 with no criminal histories, NBC News and The Wall Street Journal reported. Take the case of the Jan. 23 immigration raid at Ocean Seafood Depot, a seafood market in Newark, New Jersey, where workers clean and sell shellfish. A witness who spoke to Telemundo’s TV station there said armed immigration officers entered the small business and arrested three long-time workers. “None of these people were rapists or murderers or criminals,” Newark mayor Ras Baraka said later. In a statement, Baraka also accused ICE of detaining both undocumented residents and U.S. citizens.
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