This is one of the more sinister developments of immigration today because it preys on the existing fears immigrants harbor about the immigration process. It creates a "win-win" situation for an administration hostile to immigrants: Go through the proper channels and be detained; or avoid the process out of fear of detention and have a detention order placed on you in absentia.
Torrance Stephens, this isn't about deporting gang members. The government is arresting legitimate asylum seekers who appear in immigration court for their hearings. This will encourage people to avoid attending their hearings out of fear of arrest ... feeding the false narrative about how immigrants don't show up at their hearings. Tricking people into accepting dismissals of their cases and then arresting them because they don't have a pending cases is despicable trickery.
This is one of the more sinister developments of immigration today because it preys on the existing fears immigrants harbor about the immigration process. It creates a "win-win" situation for an administration hostile to immigrants: Go through the proper channels and be detained; or avoid the process out of fear of detention and have a detention order placed on you in absentia.
If Deporting MS-13 Gang Members is a Constitutional Crisis, Then Let the Crisis Begin https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/if-deporting-ms-13-gang-members-is
Torrance Stephens, this isn't about deporting gang members. The government is arresting legitimate asylum seekers who appear in immigration court for their hearings. This will encourage people to avoid attending their hearings out of fear of arrest ... feeding the false narrative about how immigrants don't show up at their hearings. Tricking people into accepting dismissals of their cases and then arresting them because they don't have a pending cases is despicable trickery.