Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly has signed sweeping new guidelines to speed up the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States. The memos instruct federal agencies to begin hiring 10,000 more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, as well as 5,000 more Border Patrol agents. They also detail plans to accelerate deportation hearings and to expand the number of people prioritized for removal from the United States. McClatchy is reporting hundreds of thousands more undocumented immigrants in the United States would be subject to what’s known as expedited removal proceedings to get them quickly out of the country. According to McClatchy, children who arrived in the United States as “unaccompanied minors” would no longer be protected against deportation, and their parents would be subject to criminal prosecution if they had paid human traffickers to bring their children across the border. President Trump says he’s also preparing to sign a new executive order banning people from seven majority-Muslim nations from entering the United States, although White House officials say the new travel ban will not include people with green cards or visas.
DHS Head Signs New Mass Deportation Guidelines
HeadlineFeb 20, 2017
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