Basically anyone in theĬountry without status is now a target. The Trump administration has much broader parameters. People whether they have cooperation locally, or not.”ĭemographic? He says the Obama administration “had one set of priorities but So besidesĭetainers, ICE is always doing their own field operations. ButĬooperations vary, like Dane County who is not fully cooperating. Most jails are generally cooperating with those. Law enforcement information they can see who is there, and make requests to the New sheriff would be likely to apply for it. Spots and also be able to carry out immigration enforcement.” Is field operations, where officers may be in the field conducting traffic First, have officers at the jail trained, deputized. Have special training for their officers, and there are two parts to this He’s likely toįocus on run the jails efficiently and enforcing state laws within MilwaukeeĮxists under Federal Law that allows local law enforcement agencies to apply to Him aggressively pursuing enforcement, cooperation with ICE. Want to make Milwaukee a very welcoming place for immigrants. I do deportation defense and naturalization, DACA.”Ĭounty Sheriff Earnell Lucas, he is hopeful. I’ve been working on immigration casesįor over 10 years. He is unsure of how many children are being deported in Wisconsin, in comparison to those near the border. Sesini also represents hundreds of DACA students, as well. Way, once someone’s been deported, to get them back legally, but that has been Think it’s going to continue to get worse.” He said that there is normally a Said within the last year that that increase has happened. He said that there has been an increase in ICE activity,Īnd that he thinks that there will continue to be an increase. ICE detainers on them by the time he starts to work with them. He said that there are ICE operations thatįrequently go up to Green Bay and look for specific people, many of whom haveĬriminal backgrounds, but many don’t. He said that the rumors of people being rounded up on the Now that just isn’t going to happen under Trump. He said that most of his clients used to be able to bond out, and ICE under Obama, and it has been significantly more difficult since Trump came He said that there was more cooperation with Said their exchanges range in topics from supervision, working out bonds, and Through word of mouth and advertisements. (criminal immigration), visas and naturalizations. His firm takes onįamily related cases that include marriage, juveniles, VAW, asylums, removal Is in his 20 th year of working in immigration law. Many are willing to be deported after experiencing the conditions. She says that many ICE detention centers are overpopulated, that people are sleep deprived and suffer from malnutrition. To her, immigrants are fighting an uphill battle, in that they usually aren’t represented at all – given the exorbitant fees – and usually accept removal orders. Non-profit organizations don’t have the ability to provide a defense attorney, in many cases,” she says. How people are fighting governmental state attorneys and how the undocumented The mainstream media should cover more of, is the legalities of renewal orders, citizens would know.) Since its inception, ICE, in her words, hasĪlways been active in the Latino community. (She also says that Obama deported many people, though, and more than The Obama administration, she says, people with a violent history, or fugitivesįrom justice would be targeted. Record, she says, are being detained and, subsequently, deported. A good deal of undocumented citizens without a criminal Punches pulled under the new administration. “Now, we’re just seeing it be done with little discretion,” she said. Here’s what they said:Īissa Olivarez, staff attorney at Community Immigration Law Centerĭiscretion by ICE, in that they are much more aggressive than ever before,ĭisregarding certain precautions about pending charges and minor offenses. Media Milwaukee gathered the opinions of several top immigration lawyers in Wisconsin.
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