Rep. Gallego: New DHS Immigration Rules Lay the Groundwork for Mass Deportation
Washington, D.C. – Rep. Ruben Gallego issued the following statement regarding the Department of Homeland Security's new immigration enforcement guidelines:
"These new guidelines tell us one thing: the Trump administration is willing to go after just about any member of the immigrant community. Last week, ICE arrested a DACA recipient and continues to hold him in custody without showing sufficient cause for his detention. Now the administration releases guidelines that lay the groundwork for mass deportation and tries to sell it to the American people as business-as-usual. This is far from the truth.
"Under these new rules, ICE can go after people who have not been found guilty of committing a crime and remove them from the country within days of their arrest. It also strips anyone who is not a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident of many due process protections. These are not the values our country was founded on.
"I am dedicated to holding the Trump administration accountable and will continue to call out these policies for what they are: un-American."
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