Is the administration going to deport some illegal refugee families?
Your guess is as good as mine as to whether the Obama administration will actually go about deporting some illegal refugee families, as rumored in this WaPo report based on the word of “officials familiar with the undertaking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because planning is ongoing and the operation has not been given final approval by DHS.”
My hunch at the moment is that it’s being floated out there to see what the reaction would be, and that it may never happen. Also, in typical MSM fashion, the headline—“U.S. plans raids to deport families who surged across border”—is somewhat misleading although not strictly inaccurate.
Let’s see what the article actually says:
(1) Yes, there are plans, but it might not happen.
(2) These tentative plans that might not happen involve “hundreds” of the more than 100,000 families that have come here since last year, according to the article.
(3) And even these “hundreds” of families only involve those “who have already been ordered removed from the United States by an immigration judge.”
(4) It appears that it would not affect any of the unaccompanied minor children who have also come here in great numbers.
The article goes on to describe the fact that officials in the administration have been arguing about whether to do this or not. It doesn’t name names except that of Secretary Jeh Johnson, who is supposedly for it. As far as I can tell, even if it actually ends up happening it would be mere window-dressing designed to give an appearance of something being done when in fact virtually nothing is being done.
Notice, also, the truth embedded in the news but not highlighted: at present, even a judge ordering deportation (something that doesn’t happen to the majority of the new arrivals who go to court, and many of whom don’t even appear in court when ordered to do so) has absolutely no effect on these families, who instead have so far been allowed to stay. Our court system, inadequate as it is in the first place to deal with the numbers involved, is meaningless without enforcement.
Liberal columnist Greg Sargent sees this deportation development as a possible trap for Hillary. If it ever occurs, she will be forced to comment on it. Her approval would make the immigration activists condemn her, her disapproval would place her way to the left of most Americans.
Window-dressing, all the way. You’re certainly right that if the emperor’s administration has thus far refused to obey a court order, chances of this being at all serious are damn near zero.
I suspect this is a trial balloon, designed to get the usual groups to scream bloody murder and ignite a groundswell of pro-illegal sentiment, to provide cover for the emperor doing something new and dramatic–that he wanted to do all along but needed a show of support for, in order to intimidate the few conservative members of congress into silence.
It is:
1) Maskirova
2) Dezhinformatsia
3) Taqiyya
all rolled into one. The next time either Obama or DHS tells the truth will be the first time for either.
Families? No single men? No unaccompanied minors? Only families? Families of hardworking, law abiding undocumented patriots?
“Hundreds” would be more than 200.
I would say that it’s aimed at Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
The idea is to use a pitiful handful of ejections to show how wholly impractical and RUTHLESS such a process MUST be.
The delay is entirely due to the Selection Process — as they are hunting for the RIGHT KIND of media sweet-heart ‘victims.’
The other angle is finding ICE agents with enough ice in their veins to go the full Kabuki during this dramatic-farce.
You can take it to the bank that Barry and Jeh want the ICE thugs to be played by White Old Men.
As for the script — it’s being vetted right now — out of the sea of rejects always foaming through and around Hollywood.
See “Argo” for how this is done.
We will sooner see Lucy let Charlie Brown kick the football.