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[Poetic.Injustice]

In September 2014, Gilberto Velasquez, a 38-year-old house painter from El Salvador, received life-changing news: The U.S. government had decided to shelve its deportation action against him.

The move was part of a policy change initiated by then-President Barack Obama in 2011 to pull back from deporting immigrants who had formed deep ties in the United States and whom the government considered no threat to public safety. Instead, the administration would prioritize illegal immigrants who had committed serious crimes.

Last month, things changed again for the painter, who has lived in the United States illegally since 2005 and has a U.S.-born child. He received news that the government wanted to put his deportation case back on the court calendar, citing another shift in priorities, this time by President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration has moved to reopen the cases of hundreds of illegal immigrants who, like Velasquez, had been given a reprieve from deportation, according to government data and court documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with immigration lawyers.

Trump signaled in January that he planned to dramatically widen the net of illegal immigrants targeted for deportation, but his administration has not publicized its efforts to reopen immigration cases.

It represents one of the first concrete examples of the crackdown promised by Trump and is likely to stir fears among tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who thought they were safe from deportation.

While cases were reopened during the Obama administration as well, it was generally only if an immigrant had committed a serious crime, immigration attorneys say. The Trump administration has sharply increased the number of cases it is asking the courts to reopen, and its targets appear to include at least some people who have not committed any crimes since their cases were closed.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-deportations-exclusiv-idUSKBN1902I4

 

[Zolo]

Fuck him if he sends back anyone who was given reprieve.

 

[Leona Lewis]

I feel so much safer knowing that bad hombres like a house painter with a U.S.-born child won't be here anymore to kill our jobs and our white women.

:-\

 

[excelsiorlef]

Evil

 

[F0rneus]

GOP and Trump. Filth, shit and evil. Heartless scum who want to hurt as many as they can.

 

[Whales]

Poor dude...

Fuck Trump. Evil POS

 

[nomis]

Undocumented Americans

 

[theWB27]

The only thing this administration can accomplish.

 

[truestatic]

What good does this do

Who does this help

Utter garbage

 

[- J - D -]

Yeah, deport the woman whose crime was selling pumpkin seeds on a street corner. That'll help.

 

[The Spoony Hou]

Fucking piece of shit.

 

[cdyhybrid]

This dude has the tiniest hands on Earth

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

That coward Trump needs to get over the roasting Obama gave him for the birther movement. Holding grudges is bad for the health.

 

[Skyline Owl]

Goddamned infuriating.

Fuck you, you fucking fuck.

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

He can't beat Comey so he's picking on people who can't fight him

 

[Amalthea]

Rich guy who is fighting against working-class* is working-class** idol in fight against elites.

*

Spoiler

read: people who actually have work

**

Spoiler

read: unemployed white people of non-Iberian European ancestry

 

[Apt101]

Maybe he'll let them stay if they agree to dance while pissing on him.

But seriously fuck this asshole. I am going to look into what legal bodies are defending them and see about donating.

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

Stay classy, orange turdburger.

 

[Damaniel]

What good does this do

Who does this help

Utter garbage

Trump's trying to write Obama out of the history books, plain and simple.

 

[Amalthea]

Trump's trying to write Obama out of the history books, plain and simple.

Erasing his predecessor like the old Pharaos did.

Pharao Turd-Ankh-Orange

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

I feel so much safer knowing that bad hombres like a house painter with a U.S.-born child won't be here anymore to kill our jobs and our white women.

:-

Republican logic is that being here illegally = crime = "bad hombre". They have no remorse because they feel anyone here illegally chose to commit a crime and should be punished for it. Nevermind that any given undocumented immigrant might have children, spouses, etc here and are an overall positive contributor. They chalk that up to "shoulda thought about the consewuences before they crossed the border." Victim blaming at its finest.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

Stay classy, orange turdburger.

Speaking of turdburger, Trump's a middle-class at heart because he eats at McDonald's or Wendy's.

 

[Daingurse]

Motherfucker has no empathy. None.

 

[Fast Forward]

Stupid, but not as stupid as the story about Trump, for all his talk of the WALL, having a history of hiring illegal immigrants.

 

[Anion]

How about we have this spineless man go up to some of these people and tell them face to face. This man has always had someone else as the messenger for his petty acts

 

[HotHamBoy]

Bad hombres.

 

[Toa TAK]

I don't get why. That's just being evil for the sake of it.

Erasing his predecessor like the old Pharaos did.

Pharao Turd-Ankh-Orange

I like this.