When a couple of Colombia who was planning their wedding ceremony appeared in a checkpoint with the American immigration authorities, his next date was given. The other was detained and deported.
Jhojan does not know the reason for Felipe’s detention on February 5 with immigration and enforcement of customs in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. But Jhojan was so worried after Felipe was so deported that he did not appear in the next check -in after a month. Jhojan insisted on blocking the Associated Press the last names of the couple, for fear of revenge.
It is among the many people who are now afraid that the vultures of immigration were used as a routine as an opportunity to detain them. Appointments have become a source of concern President Donald Trump Press forward with a campaign Collective deportation The number of people in the ice custody has reached its highest level since November 2019.
The checks are how ICE tracks some people who are released by the government to follow up asylum or other immigration while they are participating in their way Act of accumulation courts. The government did not mention the number of people that ICE has seized on such dates or whether this usual practice is now, but immigration defenders and lawyers feel anxious, people may stop appearing, exposing themselves to the risk of deportation.
“If you appear, they will deport you. Jhojan, 23, said to AP this week, if you do not do so, they will deport you as well.
Ice and Mother AgencyThe Ministry of Internal Security, did not respond to repeated requests to comment on immigrants detained in checks.
With the federal government launched a little information, it is difficult to define facts of rumors Fears are working In many migrant societies. However, Trump made the priority of any person in the United States illegally, a sharp shift from his predecessor, Joe Biden, who focused only on immigrants who considered public safety or national security threats and people stopped on the border.
Ice 32,809 people have said since Trump took office, a senior immigration and customs official said on Wednesday during a call with journalists. About 47,600 people in detention of ice, according to the ice official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with the directives set by the administration.
This is the first time in four years, as ICE is arrested by more people from customs and border protection, indicating that more immigrants are being held in the United States more than its borders.
Ice is connected to appointments for several reasons, including the date of the court’s date. If the immigrant breaks the law during that time or the judge refuses to appeal to stay in the United States, the ice can detain and deport them.
In Louisiana, ICE detained an immigrant last month asking to appear under the guise of being eligible to obtain another program with less supervision, according to the American Civil Liberties Union in Louisiana, who refused to provide more details.
ICE has also closed some people who were recently considered eligible to asylum and are unlikely to flee the authorities.
John Torres, a former ice manager, said it is difficult to comment in detail without further information about each case. But he added: “The main reason these things cause is that something has changed their position or something has been discovered around their background.”
Migrant Ecuador He who is in his twenties is among the asylum seekers who have been detained, according to lawyer Rosa Barika.
This happened in the first access to a man, on February 3. The man surrendered to border agents after the United States illegally entered three weeks ago. At that time, ICE officials conducted an interview with him and released him from the reservation, and concluded that he had a reasonable fear of persecution if he returned to his homeland, according to Parka.
Its launch suggested that the ice was not worried that it would flee. The fact that it was not easy for snow to imprison it.
“The family called me amaze and in a state of panic,” said Barica, who runs a special practice in Philadelphia, where the man’s family lives. “When I asked the reason, he just said that he depended on the executive requests and did not specify anything else.”
Parisa said he had no criminal condemnation or contact with the police within its few weeks in the United States, as he excludes every red science that you could imagine.
Lawyers cannot advise customers to simply overcome meetings, which may lead to deportation orders. Instead, defenders and lawyers urge migrants to prepare for appointments and detention. They warn immigrants against noting the sudden changes in how to make their examination-such as the dates that have always been virtual instead personally.
They also encourage immigrants to make them Child care arrangements in emergency situations To provide the details of their cases with friends and family. This includes sharing a unique identification number used by ICE to track people.
Immigrant rights groups say people should attend someone, preferably a lawyer, to ICE dates.
Defenders are also due to a tactic from the first Trump administration by telling people that they are a group of supporters walking them into their checks and waited abroad.
“When people feel insecure, it exposes everything to failure,” said Heidi Altman, Vice President of Policy at the National Migration Law Center. “He undermines the confidence that people need.”
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The Associated Press Ribika Santana has contributed in Washington.
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