Boddiger writes: "Just hours after he defended his order for nationwide raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport thousands of families on Sunday, Donald Trump reversed course and said the raids would be delayed by two weeks pending negotiations between Democrats and Republicans."
A protest against Donald Trump's racist immigration policies. (photo: David McNew/Getty Images)
Trump Now Says He'll Delay Massive ICE Raids For 2 Weeks
23 June 19
ust hours after he defended his order for nationwide raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to deport thousands of families on Sunday, Donald Trump reversed course and said the raids would be delayed by two weeks pending negotiations between Democrats and Republicans.
As usual, Trump made the announcement via Twitter, saying he was responding to a request by Democrats.
�At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border,� Trump wrote. �If not, Deportations start!�
At the request of Democrats, I have delayed the Illegal Immigration Removal Process (Deportation) for two weeks to see if the Democrats and Republicans can get together and work out a solution to the Asylum and Loophole problems at the Southern Border. If not, Deportations start!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 22, 2019
The raids had been planned for 10 major U.S. cities on Sunday.
Before Trump�s announcement on Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued a statement calling on Trump to stop �his heartless planned immigration raids.�
�Tomorrow is Sunday, and as many people of faith attend religious services, the President has ordered heartless raids. It is my hope that before Sunday, leaders of the faith-based community and other organizations that respect the dignity and worth of people will call upon the President to stop this brutal action which will tear families apart and inject terror into our communities,� Pelosi said.
Following Trump�s announcement, Pelosi tweeted, �Mr. President, delay is welcome. Time is needed for comprehensive immigration reform. Families belong together.�
Earlier in the day before leaving for Camp David, Trump told reporters at the White House that the raids would soon begin.
�These are people that came into the country illegally. They�ve been served. They�ve gone through a process. A process of the courts, and they have to be removed from the country,� Trump said, according to CNN. �They will be removed from the country.�
Trump�s constant strategy of dictating irrational or inhumane threats only to call them off at the last minute and claim victory is becoming increasingly common as he eyes reelection in 2020 amid falling poll numbers. In addition to temporarily calling off the raids, which were widely condemned by rights groups, Democrats, and pretty much anyone with a sense of decency, Trump also has threatened to close the U.S.-Mexico border, impose tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico, and attack Iran.
Stable genius, indeed. More like unstable idiot.
The nationwide ICE raid, which would have targeted some 2,000 families who had received deportation orders in 10 U.S. cities�including Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and Houston�was so unpopular that not even his acting secretary of Homeland Security appeared to be on board.
According to The Washington Post�s Nick Miroff, Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan had urged ICE, which is part of the agency he runs, to conduct a �more targeted operation� that would focus on 150 families, instead of thousands.
Per Miroff:
McAleenan has warned that an indiscriminate operation to arrest migrants in their homes and at work sites risks separating children from their parents in cases where the children are at day care, summer camp or friend�s houses. He also has maintained that ICE should not devote major resources to carrying out a mass interior sweep while telling lawmakers it needs emergency funding to address the crisis at the U.S. border.
Trump reportedly bypassed McAleenan and dealt directly with Acting ICE Director Mark Morgan and other ICE officials regarding the details of the raid, which Trump first announced on Twitter last Monday. In that tweet, Trump praised Mexico and Guatemala for committing to help curb the number of migrants that originate in, or migrate through, those countries on their journey to seek asylum in the U.S. But he also criticized Democrats in the U.S., blaming them for what he characterizes as a �crisis� at the southern U.S. border.
�The only ones who won�t do anything are the Democrats in Congress,� Trump tweeted on Monday. �They must vote to get rid of the loopholes, and fix asylum! If so, Border Crisis will end quickly!�
Update, Saturday, 6:54 p.m. ET: A couple takes:
Two DHS sources say deportations were cancelled for two reasons: The plans were leaked to the media and there was not enough space to detain the arrested migrants before deportation.
— Julia E. Ainsley (@JuliaEAinsley) June 22, 2019
I asked @JulianCastro about this tweet. He calls this incident and the waving off the Iran strike as "bullshit politics." Castro says, "People need to see through that and see that this guy is a political con-man." https://t.co/RCHQhZEiSy
— Benjamin Pu (@BenPu_nbc) June 22, 2019
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If key provisions are overturned, that means the "majority" of southern voters will immediately revert to non-black and non-Hispanic voters. There used to be literacy questions for those who wanted to vote (to a white: "Spell cat." to a black: "Spell terrestrial.") There was also a poll tax that made it expensive to vote: now that tax is hidden in the costs of obtaining voter I.D.s for the elderly. There was severe voter intimidation, such as the coal company that fired people after Pres. Obama was reelected.
We need the Civil Rights Act extended to cover all 50 states and protect the vote for all citizens, including U.S. citizens who live in U.S. territories. America's election system is a disgrace, and does not need any more reductions in the right to vote.
Your ruling on Citizens United blew up in your face - messing with the Voting Rights Act may well blow this country up. If anything it should be expanded. Yeah Arizona, I'm looking at you.
Lots of people sent in their dollars that they could not afford to send to try to match the billionaires' millions. This is no way to run a government, and there needs to be some overall better Constitutional Amendments on the definition of adults and their voting and contribution rights; expand the Civil Rights Act and get rid of Citizens United.
May whatever powers that rule over us get some of them replaced in this coming term and restore a balance of progressive sanity.
people of the United States. Those provisions embody the people's efforts to elect governments that serve them rather than privately vested interests. In turn, we see the prime long-term benefit of Obama's reelection, and the incoming Senate's composition, in that he may be called upon to name one or more new Justices during the coming four years, subject to the Senate's confirmation. I fervently hope we can succeed in enacting a constitutional amendment that would negate CU. I hope we won't need another amendment to preserve voting rights against yet another judicial travesty.
Just curious what you guys think, I certainly think that SCOTUS will need to uphold the voting act - it would be really bad timing considering all the things that have been discussed recently about a more powerful minority group in America in regard to the election.