U.S. Will Step Up Deportations, Focusing on Central Americans – IOTW Report

U.S. Will Step Up Deportations, Focusing on Central Americans

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NYT– Brushing aside protests from immigrant advocates and both Democratic presidential candidates, the Obama administration is moving ahead with a surge of deportations in the coming weeks, aimed mainly at mothers and children from Central America, immigration officials said Friday.

The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up the pace of deportations to send a tough enforcement message to Central America and to try to head off a seasonal swell of illegal crossings of the southwest border, the officials said. Those crossings generally rise during the summer, and administration officials are especially concerned because there was an unexpected increase in the numbers of migrants last fall.  more

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  1. I’ll stop insisting that the deportations focus on mohammadmen and people from mohammad-crazed countries if they’d simply go by first names, and deport anyone named Mohammad, Abdul, Ali, Youssef, Abdul, Fatima, Nour, or Malak.

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