AP
By Benjamin Siegel
January 5, 2016
One
House Democrat is voicing his opposition to the Obama administration
taking 121 adults and children into custody over the weekend as part of
an operation to deport
undocumented immigrants from Central America.
Rep.
Luis Gutierrez, D-Illinois, a leading immigration reform advocate on
Capitol Hill, said in a statement Monday that the raids by Immigration
and Customs Enforcement
Officials –- primarily conducted in Georgia, North Carolina and Texas
-- “must stop.”
“They are a cruel reminder of a discredited policy,” he said in the statement.
The
Democrat wants to know why the raids were conducted over the holidays
and is seeking a meeting with Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson,
according to an aide.
Johnson
announced Monday that 121 individuals in the United States illegally
were taken into custody over the weekend as part of a new effort to
deport families that were
apprehended after May 1, 2014 crossing the southern border illegally.
Although
Johnson issued these new priorities in Nov. 2014, the ICE recently
began operations to remove families who remained in the U.S. despite
orders from a judge to
return home.
“This
should come as no surprise,” Johnson said in a statement. “I have said
publicly for months that individuals who constitute enforcement
priorities, including families
and unaccompanied children, will be removed.”
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