With Mass Raids by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Planned for Sunday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) Signed a Bill Friday that will make his State the First in the Country to Ban Private Immigration Detention centers.
“Illinois is and always will be a welcoming state,” said Pritzker in a Statement on Friday. “Let me be perfectly clear: the state of Illinois stands as a firewall against Donald Trump’s attacks on our immigrant communities. In the face of attempts to stoke fear, exploit division, and force families into the shadows, we are taking action.”
The ICE Raids, known as “Family Op”, are scheduled to begin before dawn on Sunday in: Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco. They will target up to 2,000 Families who have already received Deportation Orders.
Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan has urged ICE to Narrow the Raids to just 150 Families who Abandoned Legal Proceedings after being provided with Attorneys.
ICE plans to Temporarily House the Immigrants it rounds up in Hotels.
Increasingly, ICE has begun relying on Private, For-Profit Detention Centers to hold Immigrants, which is why Pritzker decided to push forward this Legislation Prohibiting such Facilities from Operating in Illinois. The Bills he Signed on Friday also Prohibit Local Law Enforcement Agencies from Cooperating with ICE, and allows Undocumented Students to receive MAP Grants for College.
“We will not allow private entities to profit off of the intolerance of this president. We will not allow local police departments act as an extension of ICE,” Pritzker said. “And we will ensure that every student in this state who wants to go to college should be able to do so without saddling themselves with debt for the rest of their lives.”
On Saturday, President Trump Defended his Plan on Twitter. “The people that Ice will apprehend have already been ordered to be deported. This means that they have run from the law and run from the courts. These are people that are supposed to go back to their home country. They broke the law by coming into the country, & now by staying,” he said.
Once an Order of Removal becomes Final, then ICE is supposed to Deport you within 90 days, although due to Limited Resources and Higher Priorities, it does not always start the Process until much later. If you have Not been Notified by ICE, you have No Specific Duty to do anything just yet, as it is up to ICE to begin the Removal Process.
ICE will try to send what is known as a "Bag and Baggage" Letter (Form I-166) demanding that you Report to a Local ICE Facility at a particular Time and Date. You will be told to bring your Passport or other Travel Documents with you, and you will be allowed a Small piece of Luggage to carry Personal items. Basically, this is a Letter asking you to turn Yourself in so that you can be Deported. At this point, you have a Legal Duty to Report for Removal as directed.
If you Report as directed with your Documents and Baggage or picked up in a Raid, you will be taken into Custody or Detained until the Government Arranges to Send you Back to your Home Country. For those Countries, such as Mexico, Arrangements are done Quickly and Mass Deportations take place several times each week. If you are from a Country that does Not have Diplomatic Relations with the U.S., Travel Arrangements could take much Longer.
UPDATE
President Trump announced he would Delay an ICE Operation that would have Deported as many as 2,000 Migrant Families for Two weeks. Trump said that the Delay would allow for Negotiations on Capitol Hill regarding Immigration Reform.
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