An investigation into deportation chain and hidden costs
Hanging Khalid, Host:
President Trump made a promise to deportation, making a promise in the campaign track of the biggest priority of his administration.
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President Donald Trump: I will start the largest deportation program in American history on the 1st day.
Khadi: During this campaign speech, Trump was afraid of the immigrants who came to the United States illegally, which he described as guilty and gang members.
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Trump: We will not be occupied. We will not move. We will not be conquered.
KHALİD: The administration went further in March, and for the first time since the World War II, the law of xenophobia – this time the train called to target the alleged members of the Aragua gang.
UNIDENTIFIED person: Why are we arrested?
UNIDENTIFIED Officer #1: So come back.
UNIDENTIFIED Officer #2: Keep your hands so that I can see them.
UNIDENTIFIED Officer #1: Return. Back. Back.
KHALİD: The same month, federal immigration agents began to arrest people interested in pro -Palestinian activism in university campuses. One of them was Mahmud Khalil, a graduate student and a green card owner. His wife Noor Abdalla was taken as agents who refused to clap their arrest names and put them in a unmarked car.
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Noor Abdalla: Yes, they just handcuffed it. I don’t know what to do (crying).
KHALİD: Abdalla said that NPR took 38 hours for her husband to find out where they were sent.
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Abdalla: I think this is probably the most terrible thing that happened to me.
Khalid: Out of deportation in the United States usually includes a long and complex process. However, as the Trump administration expands the number and scope of deportation, immigrant rights defenders create concerns about the necessary process and first change rights. With NPR, we will open the process of deportation with Ximena Bustillo now to understand a little better and discuss what it looks like in practice. It covers the migration policy for the network. Hi.
Ximena Bustillo, Byline: Hello, Hanging.
Khalid: So you have been reporting about migration for the last few months, and you have boiled this deportation process in a series of different steps to help us understand how a slightly crippled process works. So what did you find?
Bustillo: I set this process in five steps …
Khalid: Okay.
Bustillo: … is defined as deportable, being arrested, passing through the immigration court, a final lifting order and the final lifting. That the process is individualized for each case and who, what, when, where, how?
Khalid: Okay.
Bustillo: So when defined (pH), it can be drifted for years or very fast.
Khalid: I understand. So let’s start with the first step you mentioned. What does it mean to be defined as deportable?
BUStillo: Those who are at risk of arrest include people who do not have legal status, because they may have entered the country illegally, may have exceeded a job or a student visa or violate the conditions of green cards, including committing a crime. However, the government does not have to prove that you commit a crime to see you as removable. A good example of this may be those who do not have job authorities. There are about 8 million in this country.
Khalid: So how does Ximena find them after someone is defined?
Bustillo: Internal security investigations are expensive and time consuming. Therefore, they often rely on local law enforcement officers to report that they have arrested or defined someone without legal status. Then the so -called “general” arrests. These are the arrests made by ice in the field.
Khalid: Okay, that is, Ximena, from there you enter a court system. And I want you to help us understand how the immigrant courts are different from other courts in our American legal system.
BUStillo: To begin, they are not in the judicial branch like all other courts in our legal system. They are in executive under the Ministry of Justice. And those who are arrested do not get the right to a lawyer, but they may want to find one. And they gain the chance to make their defenses. During this environment, there is a lawyer who discusses in favor of the ice in the name of ice. And then, things become more complex. The immigration courts are currently filed about 4 million cases …
Khalid: Oh, wow.
Bustillo: … And people are arrested faster than they can commit their cases for the courts.
Khalid: I have a question here, Ximena. I mean, this court process is not what we have arisen with some high -profile cases that we’ve heard since President Trump’s start.
Bustillo: Correct. In other words, many immigrants are suing. They say that this court process is completely wrong because people are placed in planes and taken to other countries.
Khalid: So how do they do this? How can you reduce the process?
Bustillo: Trump management is trying to use very special authorities to speed up these lifting. Some have been called accelerated lifting, in particular, the law of alien enemies, which allows the administration to skip the court process, and still, allowing you to accelerate the removal of the court process.
Khalid: I understand. Okay, then let’s go back as long as you explain it and I want to ask the last two steps. Potentially, say that you have received a final lifting order and then you have been removed. How is this really happening? How does this work?
Bustillo: So, there are about three main ways to remove people, or accelerated lifting. This is primarily at the limit where people are basically taken back. Then there is a voluntary turn, then someone makes their own travel arrangements. And then, the time when the ice sets you back. However, there are difficulties to send many people back to their own countries. One reason for this is that their country does not accept to accept them.
Especially something that I cannot list is the step of being detained. Some people can be detained from the point where they are arrested or a lifting flight until a court decision is taken. There are also alternatives in custody, such as wearing an ankle monitor or checking regularly with the government.
Khalid: Okay. So, Ximena, what you define seems to be an incredibly long process, perhaps a very costly process. Nevertheless, it is something President Trump’s campaign. He promised that he would be deported in American history. So during the campaign, this really emerges in the first few months?
Bustillo: continues to focus on exiles and arrests. However, there is still a resource problem. The border Cars Tom Homan criticized Congress’s Congress more slowly about coding any of Trump’s executive orders to DHS, especially in the White House, which is a migration policy, law and financing.
Khalid: Okay. Thank you very much for your report.
Bustillo: Thank you.
Khalid: This NPR is Ximena Bustillo.
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