| It's interesting. Even as President Trump's executive orders pausing immigration from key Moslem countries are stymied in the courts, two things have been happening: 1) the number of those choosing to actually coming to the U.S. -- both legally and illegally -- has reportedly fallen to almost nothing, and 2) repatriation deals have suddenly become possible, allowing those we mistakenly accepted to be sent back. It's almost as if the executive orders were the first steps of a multifaceted negotiation with the endgame of reducing the number of bad guys in our country, rather than a fixed desire that would be either won or lost. Not to mention the probability that many who previously casually misbehaved in the way of their people are suddenly anxious to be seen as upright, law-abiding citizens. |
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’s travel ban, officials said on Wednesday.
In the Detroit area, 114 Iraqi nationals were arrested over the weekend, and 85 throughout the rest of the country over the past several weeks, Gillian Christensen, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman, said in a statement.
The actions came as part of the Trump administration’s push to increase immigration enforcement and make countries, which have resisted in the past, take back nationals ordered deported from the United States.
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The overwhelming majority of those arrested had criminal convictions for crimes including murder, rape, assault, kidnapping, burglary, drug trafficking, weapons violations and other offenses, Christensen said.
As of April 17, 2017, there were 1,444 Iraqi nationals with final orders for removal, she said. Since the March 12 agreement with Iraq regarding deportees, eight Iraqi nationals have been removed to Iraq.
Dozens of Iraqi Chaldean Catholics in Detroit were among those targeted in the immigration sweeps, some of whom fear they will be killed if deported to their home country, immigration attorneys and family members said.
"It is very worrisome that ICE has signaled its intention to remove Chaldean Christians to Iraq where their safety not only cannot be guaranteed, but where they face persecution and death for their religious beliefs," Martin Manna, president of the Chaldean Community Foundation, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Kurdish Iraqis also were picked up in Nashville, Tennessee, attorneys, activists and family members said.
At least some of those arrested came to the United States as children, got in trouble and already served their sentences, according to immigration attorneys and activists. Some have lived in the United States so long they no longer speak Arabic.
An Iraqi official previously said Iraqi diplomatic and consular missions would coordinate with U.S. authorities to issue travel documents for the deportees.