Trump is playing with us. I hate it! He tweeted this moments ago.
Immigrants all over the US and their allies and advocates are gearing up for Sunday when Donald Trump says a massive roundup of immigrants, refugees and undocumented is scheduled to begin.
Twitter has been humming ever since Trump issued his own tweet on earlier this week that the deportation of "millions" will take place next week beginning as early as Sunday morning. There are tweets with phone numbers for legal representation, how to behave if ICE knocks on your door and what rights do potential deportees have.
ICE agents reportedly will target immigrants in Miami, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, and San Francisco for deportation as early as Sunday, sources told the Miami Herald.
"The people that Ice will apprehend have already been ordered to be deported," Trump tweeted. "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."
Particularly vulnerable are the thousands of South and Southeast Asian Americans -- Cambodians, Vietnamese, Laotians, Bengalis, Malaysians, Afghanis -- whose families to sought asylum from America's wars in Asia, religious and ethnic persecution, those who have had run-ins with the law (even minor violatins) when they were teenagers and who ICE has targeted for deportation in the past year.
One of several immigrant advocacy groups, Define American, offered this advice:
One of several immigrant advocacy groups, Define American, offered this advice:
1. You don’t have to open the door if an ICE agent comes to your home. ICE is only allowed to enter your home if they have a valid search or arrest warrant with your correct name &/or address, signed by a judge or magistrate, not an ICE official.
2. You have the right to remain silent and don’t have to answer any questions.
2. You have the right to remain silent and don’t have to answer any questions.
3. Do not sign anything without a lawyer present.
4. Record your interaction by phone and contact a lawyer immediately.
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