ICE Age

The bill provides a massive amount of new funding for the ICE deporation efforts, which have already been targeting those with no criminal record and even those who aren’t in the country illegally. NYT (Gift Article): As Trump Broadens Crackdown, Focus Expands to Legal Immigrants and Tourists. “U.S. immigration agents wearing masks arrested a Georgetown University academic outside his home in Virginia. They detained two German tourists for weeks when they tried to enter the country legally through the southern border. They knocked on doors at Columbia University apartments, searching for pro-Palestinian protesters. The Trump administration has opened a new phase in its immigration agenda, one that goes well beyond the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants.”

+ “Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongfully deported to El Salvador in March, was beaten, deprived of sleep and psychologically tortured during the nearly three months he spent in Salvadoran custody … His lawyers said that he and 20 other Salvadoran men who were deported to the prison from the United States on March 15 were once made to kneel overnight ‘with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.’ During the time he spent there, the lawyers said, Mr. Abrego Garcia was ‘denied bathroom access and soiled himself.'” (Remember, he and many others weren’t actually convicted of any crime.) Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say.