Arrested while applying for a green card: US immigration experts fear policy shift
By Susan Zalkind – Saturday 1 April 2017- The Guardian
Multiple cases of people being arrested while seeking green cards marks a dramatic shift in immigration policy, say observers: ‘This is what we all feared’
Leandro Arriaga arrived at the immigration office with his US citizen wife and three-month-old daughter on Wednesday.
Their lawyer knew the meeting was a risk. Arriago, 43, who had come to the US from the Dominican Republic in 2000, did have an order of deportation out against him. But she had never had a client detained at a US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) meeting before.
The arrest of Arriago and at least three other people in Massachusetts this week while they were applying for their green cards marks a dramatic shift in immigration policy, say attorneys and experts.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/01/green-card-arrests-undocumented-immigration-trump
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US expands program to deport Caribbean immigrants in correctional facilities
BY NELSON A. KING | IMMIGRATION
Even as legislators and immigrant advocacy groups express outrage over the Donald Trump administration’s immigration policies, United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions has announced the expansion and modernization of a program to deport immigrants, including Caribbean nationals, in US federal correctional facilities.
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