DEA confirms ice attacks performed in Austin

Austin And US immigration and customs enforcement carried out attacks in Austin over the weekend. The Razzias come into President Trump’s promise for a week to implement the biggest deportation campaign in American history.

Federal agents from IS as well as Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) out of Houston conducted several immigration attacks in Austin on Sunday, according to a spokesman for a DEA.

So far, ICE has reported more than 2,300 arrests since President Trump joined his second period.

Sunday’s attack

What we know:

The raids began around 1 p.m. 8 and lasted in the early afternoon. Austin was one of several cities that saw the attacks. San Antonio and Laredo were among the cities.

“I am all to remove criminals, people who have been imposed by a court to be removed from our country and their immigration status denied, but I don’t think these broad Dragnets really make us safer,” the US representative Lloyd Doggett (said D-Austin).

Throughout the country, 956 arrests were made, according to ICE officials.

In a RAID in Colorado, nearly 50 people were taken into custody. Some were members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, as Governor Greg Abbott has considered a terrorist organization.

There are estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.

What we don’t know:

The number of people arrested in central Texas has not been released.

What they say:

“We’ve seen record-breaking on phone calls, people trying to come in and then request that people in the community just want information,” said immigration lawyer Michelle Saenz-Rodriguez. “I have my employer clients who are concerned because their workers don’t show up for work, and then I have my families who are afraid to go to work who are afraid of sending their children to school because we just don’t know what is happening.

Saenz-Rodriguez says people who are concerned need to know their rights.

“We want people to understand that they have the right to be silent, that they have the right to talk to a lawyer and that there are differences in where ice cream can go and where they cannot go. There is Private spaces and there are public spaces and your home is a private space, so unless you let them in, they cannot go in unless they have what is called a legal justification and you have to have a judicial order Signed by a judge to go into a private space, “said Saenz-Rodriguez.

Protests at Capitol

Local Perspective:

On Sunday night in Austin, a few hundred protesters at the State Capitol gathered to speak against these actions.

Some say they are not there to protect criminals, but they are there to protect 7-year-olds who are not criminals and do not belong to gangs.

Local non-profit promised to help provide legal aid to those arrested in the attacks and said they have three lawyers taking cases pro bono.

Trump The White House says actions like Sunday’s raids will keep the country in safety. However, some are questioning whether the deportation of 11 million people is realistic.

Democrats are concerned that law -abiding people will also be targeted. To say that there are people who do not cause problems in our country and we need a path to citizenship for them.

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What is ice cream?

Back story:

ICE was created in 2003 through a merger of the investigative and interior enforcement elements of the former US Customs and Immigration and Naturalization Service. ICE now has more than 20,000 law enforcement and support staff in more than 400 offices in the United States and worldwide.

The Agency has an annual budget of approximately $ 8 billion, primarily devoted to three operational directorates – Homeland Security Investigation (HSI), enforcement and removal operations (ERO) and Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (Raa). A fourth Directorate – Management and Administration (M&A) – supports the three operational branches to promote the ICE mission.

Enforcement and removal operations

The ERO Directorate maintains US immigration legislation within and beyond our borders. Ero’s work is critical of the enforcement of the immigration law against those who pose a danger to our national security, is a threat to public security, or which otherwise undermines the integrity of our immigration system.

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