ओबामा राष्ट्रपती हुँदा गत आठ बर्षमा ४ लाख गैरकानुनी रूपमा बसोबास गर्दै आएका, अपराधमा सँलग्न आप्रबासीलाई पक्राउ गरी देश निकाला गरेको अमेरिकी प्रशासनले राष्ट्रपती ट्रम्प आए पछि पनि त्यसलाई निरन्तरता दिँदै गएको देखिएको छ । 
जसको कानुनी रुपमा कागजात छ, स्टाटस छ, ग्रीनकार्ड छ तिनीहरु कोही डराउनु पर्दैन । तर यि सबै कागजात हुँदा हुँदै पनि कसैले अमेरिकाको कानून नियम उल्लंघन हुने गरी कुनै गलत र आपराधिक काम गरेको छ भने तिनीहरु पनि सुरक्षित छैनन, जसले अमेरिकी नागरिकता लिइसकेका छन उनिहरुलाई भने डिपोट गर्नै पाइंदैन : कानून बिदहरु ।
वाशिङटन पोस्ट, CNN, Fox News,हिमालय खबर लगायत का Media हरुका अनुसार अहिले अमेरिकाका बिभिन्न राज्यमा अमेरिकी इमिग्रेशन अर्थरिटीले यस साता करिब आधा दर्जन राज्यमा छापामारी (रेड गरी ) सयौँ कानुनी रूपमा बस्ने कागजात विहिन आप्रावासीलाई पक्राउ गरेको छ । अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्पद्धारा गत जनवरी अन्तिम साता जारी आप्रावासीसंग सम्बन्धित कार्यकारी आदेश पछि यसरी कागजात विहिन आप्रावासीलाई धरपकड गरिएको हो ।
अमेरिका बस्ने आधिकारिक कागजात विना गरैकानुनी रूपमा बस्दै आएका र अपराधमा संलग्नलाई खोजी गर्न यसरी छापा मारिएको भए पनि अपराध नगरेका समेत पक्राउ परेको वासिङ्टन पोष्टले संघिय अधिकारीलाई उदृत गर्दै समाचारमा जनाएको छ । पुर्व राष्ट्रपति बाराक ओबामाका वेलामा पनि यसरी छापा मारिएको भए पनि त्यसवेला यो खाली अपराधमा संलग्नलाई पक्राउ गरी देश निकाला डिर्पोटेशनका लागि गरिएको थियो ।
अहिलेको रेड अमेरिकामा गैरकानुनी रूपमा बस्दै आएका अनुमानित १ करोड १० लाखलाई फिर्ता पठाउने राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्पको नीतिमा केन्द्रित छ । गैरकानुनी रूपमा बस्ने मध्ये करिब ३० लाख अपराधमा संलग्न रहेको अनुमान छ । राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्पले चुनावी अभियानकै क्रममा पहिलो चरणमा यस्ता अपराध गरेका गैरकानुनी रूपमा बसोवास गर्दै आएका आप्रावासीलाई देश निकाला गर्ने घोषणा गरेका थिए । राष्ट्रपति भए लगत्तै ट्रम्पले ओबामा प्रशासनमा भएको व्यवस्था परिवर्तन गरी सामान्य अपराध गर्नेलाई पनि देश निकाला गर्ने नीति लिएका थिए ।
इमिग्रेशन अधिकारीले यस साता एटलान्टा, सिकागो, न्युयोर्क, लसएञ्जल्स, नर्थ क्यारिलोना, र साउथ क्यारिलोनाका कार्यस्थल, घर लगायतमा छापा मारी गैरकानुनी आप्रावासीलाई हिरासतमा लिएको जनाएका छन् ।
छिमेकी देश मेक्सिकोले आफ्ना नागरिकलाई विद्यमान परिस्थितिमा अमेरिका भित्र विशेष सतर्क हुन सुझाव दिएको छ । ६ वटा राज्यमा गरिएको यो छापामारीमा नेपाल परे नपरेको अहिलेसम्म सार्वजनिक भएको छैन । पक्राउ पर्नेमा अधिकांश ल्याटिन अमेरिकी देशका नागरिक रहेको संचारमाध्यमले जनाएका छन् ।
आप्रावासी सम्वन्धि मामिला हेर्ने निकाय डिपार्टमेण्ट अफ होमल्याण्ड सेक्युरिटी (डीएचएस) प्रवक्ता जिलियन क्रिस्टेसन्ले अहिलेको रेडलाई नियमित भएको प्रतिक्रिया दिएका छन् । उनका अनुसार सोमबार सुरु भएको रेड शुक्रवार दिउसो समाप्त भएको थियो, यस क्रममा दर्जन ल्याटिन अमेरिकी देशका नागरिक फेला परेका छन् ।
डीएचएसले जानकारी दिए बाहेक अन्य क्षेत्रमा पनि रेड गरिएको इमिग्रेशन अधिकारवादीको दाबी छ । उनीहरूका अनुसार फ्लोरिडा, केन्सस, टेक्सस र नेर्थ भर्जिनियामा पनि रेड गरिएको छ । यस क्षेत्रमा नेपालीहरू पनि बसोबास गर्छन् । अपराधमा संलग्न नभएका समेत रेडका क्रममा पक्राउ परेकामा आप्रावासी समुदायमा चिसो पसेको छ । इमिग्रेसन अधिकारवादीले यो रेडको विरोध गरेका छन् ।
रेडका क्रममा इमिग्रेशन एण्ड कस्टमस् इर्फोस्मेण्ट (आईसीई) का अधिकारीले बिहीबार घर र कार्यस्थलमा केही घण्टा घेरावन्दी गरी कयौँलाई हिरासतमा लिएको इमिग्रेशन अधिकारवादीले जनाएका छन् । आईसीईका फिल्ड डाइरेक्टर डेभिड मारिनले संवाददाताहरुसंगको कुराकानीमा एक वर्ष भन्दा बढी जेल संजाय पाउने अपराधमा संलग्न १ सय ६० लाई पक्राउ गरेको जानकारी दिएका थिए । सम्बन्धित अधिकृतका अनुसार यस मध्ये ३७ जनालाई मेक्सिको डिर्पोट गरिएको छ ।
टेक्सस अस्टिन स्थित सपिंग सेन्टरमा आईसीई एजेण्टले रेड गरिरहेको भिडियो सामाजिक सञ्जालमा राखिएको थियो । टेक्सस लगायत केही राज्यका सर्वसाधारण हिड्डुल गर्ने केही स्थानमा आईडी चेक गरिएको पनि जनाईएको छ । वैधाननिक रूपमा अमेरिका बस्न र काम गर्न पाउने कागजात नभएका र एक वर्ष भन्दा बढी जेल संजाय हुने खालका अपराधमा संलगनलाई अभियानका साथ फिर्ता पठाइने राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्पले बताउँदै आएका छन् । २० लाख भन्दा बढी यस्ता व्यक्ति रहेको अनुमान छ । यो खर्चिलो र व्यवहारिक रूपमा झन्झटिलो पनि छ ।
इमिग्रेशनवारेमा परामर्श दिइरहेका कानुन व्यवसायीले यदि अमेरिका बस्ने वैधानिक कागजात छैन भने केही समय सतर्क हुन सुझाव दिएका छन् । यसरी गैरकानुनी रूपमा बस्नु पहिला र अहिलेपनि उचित नभएको हुदां कुनै वैकल्पिक उपाय सोच्नु पर्ने कानुन विज्ञहरुको सुझाव छ हिमालय खबर लेख्छ ।
राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्पले पदभार ग्रहण गरेकै साता हस्ताक्षर कार्यकारी आदेशमा ७ वटा मुस्लिम देश सिरिया, इराक, इरान, सोमालिया, सुडान, लिविया र यमन वाट आउनेलाई तिन महिना अस्थायी प्रतिबन्ध लगाउने, मेक्सिको सीमामा पर्खाल निमार्ण, गैरकानुनी रूपमा अमेरिकामा पस्न र बस्न खोज्नेलाई कडाई गर्ने उल्लेख छ । हाललाई अदालतले यो कार्यकारी आदेशलाई रद्द गरेको छ ।
गैरकानुनी रूपमा वस्नेलाई फिर्ता पठाउने कुनै नयाँ होइन । यसअघिका राष्ट्रपति बाराक ओबामाको आठ बर्षे कार्यकालमा पनि वार्षिक सरदर ४ लाख गैरकानुनी आप्रावासीलाई अमेरिकाले फिर्ता पठाएको थियो । यसमा वार्षिक झण्डै २ सयजति नेपालीपनि थिए । यसैले गैरकानुनी आप्रावासीलाई फिर्ता पठाउने निरन्तर प्रकृया हो ।
अमेरिकामा मेक्सिको सिमावाट गैरकानुनी रूपमा आउने विदेशीलाई रोक्न त्यहां पर्खाल लगाउने कार्यकारी आदेशमा उल्लेख छ । यो ट्रम्पको चुनावी एजेण्डामा नै थियो । तर, पर्खाल वन्न केही समय लाग्ने भए पनि सिमा सुरक्षामा जनशक्ति र स्रोत थपिएको छ ।
ICE: Southern California raids were planned for a while, not tied to Trump
Source: foxnews.com
FILE 2017: A photo released by ICE shows foreign nationals being arrested this week.
(Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)
The Los Angeles Times reported that authorities arrested more than 160 people in the five-day sweep, most of whom have criminal histories.
David Marin, the director, told the paper that most of those arrested had prior felony convictions, but a few were taken in because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
He said five people would not have met the Obama administration's enforcement priorities but were arrested because they were found to be in the country illegally.
“The rash of these recent reports about ICE checkpoints and random sweeps and the like, it’s all false, and that’s definitely dangerous and irresponsible,” Marin told the paper. “Reports like that create panic, and they put communities and law enforcement personnel in unnecessary danger.”
He said similar operations took place this week in Atlanta, New York and Chicago.
Immigrant advocates decried a series of arrests that federal deportation agents said aimed to round up criminals in Southern California but they believe mark a shift in enforcement under the Trump administration.
Advocates began fielding calls Thursday from immigrants and their lawyers reporting raids at homes and businesses in the greater Los Angeles area.
In one instance, agents knocked on one door looking for a man and ended up arresting another who is in the country illegally but has no criminal record — something Angelica Salas, the executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, said would not likely have happened previously.
"This was not normal," Salas told reporters Friday.
The announcement of the arrests comes days after an Arizona woman was arrested and deported to Mexico after what she thought was a routine check in with immigration officials and amid heightened anxiety among immigrant communities since Trump signed an executive order to expand deportations.
A decade ago, immigration officers searching for specific individuals would often arrest others found along the way, a practice that drew criticism from advocates. Under the Obama administration, agents also carried out arrests but focused more narrowly on specific individuals.
In the suburbs of Los Angeles, 50-year-old house painter Manuel Mosqueda was there when his fiancé answered the door, thinking it was police, his 21-year-old daughter Marlene said.
"They were looking for someone else and they took my dad in the process," she said.
Karla Navarrete, a lawyer for CHIRLA, said she sought to stop Mosqueda from being placed on a bus to Mexico and was told by ICE that things had changed. She said another lawyer filed federal court papers to halt his removal.
Salas said the agency provided scant details to lawyers who headed to the detention center in response to the phone calls, and in the past was more forthcoming with information.
She also said there is increased anxiety in the community about immigration enforcement since Trump's order.
Democratic state lawmakers denounced the arrests and urged immigrants to know their rights and what to do if approached by federal authorities.
“Even under Obama we had sweeps or big operations where they would go into a particular neighborhood or say that this week we’re going to do a big operation and arrest people with certain profiles in certain parts of the city,” Jennie Pasquarella, a director of immigrant rights for the ACLU, said. “The piece of it that is new is some of the reports that we were getting yesterday indicating that there were people [arrested] who did not have any criminal convictions at all.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report
Federal agents conduct immigration enforcement raids in at least six states
U.S. immigration authorities arrested hundreds of undocumented immigrants in at least a half-dozen states this week in a series of raids that marked the first large-scale enforcement of President Trump’s Jan. 26 order to crack down on the estimated 11 million immigrants living here illegally.
The raids, which officials said targeted known criminals, also netted some immigrants who did not have criminal records, an apparent departure from similar enforcement waves during the Obama administration that aimed to just corral and deport those who had committed crimes.
Trump has pledged to deport as many as 3 million undocumented immigrants with criminal records. Last month he also made a change to the Obama administration’s policy of prioritizing deportation for convicted criminals, substantially broadening the scope of who the Department of Homeland Security can target to include those with minor offenses or no convictions at all.
Immigration officials confirmed that agents this week raided homes and workplaces in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, the Los Angeles area, North Carolina and South Carolina, netting hundreds of people. But Gillian Christensen, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), said they were part of “routine” immigration enforcement actions. ICE dislikes the term “raids,” and prefers to say authorities are conducting “targeted enforcement actions.”
Protesters blocked an onramp to the 101
freeway in Los Angeles Feb. 9, objecting to what they claim is a rise in
immigration raids.
(The Washington Post)
Immigration activists said the crackdown went beyond the six states DHS identified, and said they had also documented ICE raids of unusual intensity during the past two days in Florida, Kansas, Texas and Northern Virginia.
That undocumented immigrants with no criminal records were arrested and could potentially be deported sent a shock through immigrant communities nationwide amid concerns that the U.S. government could start going after law-abiding people.
“This is clearly the first wave of attacks under the Trump administration, and we know this isn’t going to be the only one,” Cristina Jimenez, executive director of United We Dream, an immigrant youth organization, said Friday during a conference call with immigration advocates.
ICE agents in the Los Angeles area Thursday swept a number of individuals into custody over the course of an hour, seizing them from their homes and on their way to work in daytime operations, activists said.
David Marin, ICE’s field director in the Los Angeles area, said in a conference call with reporters Friday that 75 percent of the approximately 160 people detained in the operation this week had felony convictions; the rest had misdemeanors or were in the United States illegally. Officials said Friday night that 37 of those detained in Los Angeles has been deported to Mexico.
“Dangerous criminals who should be deported are being released into our communities,” Marin said.
Spanish language radio stations and the local NPR affiliate in Los Angeles have been running public service announcements regarding the hourly “Know Your Rights” seminars the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles scheduled for Friday and Saturday. By the time the 4 p.m. group began Friday, more than 100 others had gathered at group’s office in the Westlake neighborhood just outside downtown.
A video that circulated on social media Friday appeared to show ICE agents detaining people in an Austin shopping center parking lot. Immigration advocates also reported roadway checkpoints, where ICE appeared to be targeting immigrants for random ID checks, in North Carolina and in Austin. ICE officials denied that authorities used checkpoints during the operations.
“I’m getting lots of reports from my constituents about seeing ICE on the streets. Teachers in my district have contacted me — certain students didn’t come to school today because they’re afraid,” said Greg Casar, an Austin city council member. “I talked to a constituent, a single mother, who had her door knocked on this morning by ICE.”
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Tex.) said he confirmed with ICE’s San Antonio office that the agency “has launched a targeted operation in South and Central Texas as part of Operation Cross Check.”
“I am asking ICE to clarify whether these individuals are in fact dangerous, violent threats to our communities, and not people who are here peacefully raising families and contributing to our state,” Castro said in a statement Friday night.
Hiba Ghalib, an immigration lawyer in Atlanta, said the ICE detentions were causing “mass confusion” in the immigrant community. She said she had heard reports of ICE agents going door-to-door in one largely Hispanic neighborhood, asking people to present their papers.
“People are panicking,” Ghalib said. “People are really, really scared.”
Immigration officials acknowledged that authorities had cast a wider net than they would have last year, as the result of Trump’s executive order.
The Trump administration is facing a series of legal challenges to that order, and on Thursday lost a court battle over a separate executive order to temporarily ban entry into the United States by citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries, as well as by refugees. The administration said Friday that it is considering raising the case to the Supreme Court.
Some activists in Austin and Los Angeles suggested that the raids might be retaliation for those cities’ “sanctuary city” policies. A government aide familiar with the raids said it is possible that the predominantly daytime operations — a departure from the Obama administration’s night raids — meant to “send a message to the community that the Trump deportation force is in effect.”
Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, a pro-immigrant advocacy group, said that the wave of detentions harks back to the George W. Bush administration, when workplace raids to sweep up all undocumented workers were common.
The Obama administration conducted a spate of raids and also pursued a more aggressive deportation policy than any previous president, sending more than 400,000 people back to their birth countries at the height of his deportations in 2012. The public outcry over the lengthy detentions and deportations of women, children and people with minor offenses led Obama in his second term to prioritize convicted criminals for deportation.
A DHS official confirmed that while immigration agents were targeting criminals, given the broader range defined by Trump’s executive order they also were sweeping up non-criminals in the vicinity who were found to be lacking documentation. It was unclear how many of the people detained would have been excluded under Obama’s policy.
Federal immigration officials, as well as activists, said that the majority of those detained were adult men, and that no children were taken into custody.
“Big cities tend to have a lot of illegal immigrants,” said one immigration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly due to the sensitive nature of the operation. “They’re going to a target-rich environment.”
Immigrant rights groups said that they were planning protests in response to the raids, including one Friday evening in Federal Plaza in New York City and a vigil in Los Angeles.
“We cannot understate the level of panic and terror that is running through many immigrant communities,” said Walter Barrientos of Make the Road New York in New York City, who spoke on a conference call with immigration advocates.
“We’re trying to make sure that families who have been impacted are getting legal services as quickly as possible. We’re trying to do some legal triage,” said Bob Libal, the executive director of Grassroots Leadership, which provides assistance and advocacy work to immigrants in Austin. “It’s chaotic,” he said. The organization’s hotline, he said, had been overwhelmed with calls.
Jeanette Vizguerra, 35, a Mexican house cleaner whose permit to stay in the country expired this week, said Friday during the conference call that she was newly apprehensive about her scheduled meeting with ICE next week.
Fearing deportation, Vizguerra, a Denver mother of four — including three who are U.S. citizens — said through an interpreter that she had called on activists and supporters to accompany her to the meeting.
“I know I need to mobilize my community, but I know my freedom is at risk here,” Vizguerra said.
America
Immigration Raids Are Reported Around The Country
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent detains an
immigrant in 2015 in Los Angeles. A new round of detentions this week
has triggered complaints from immigrant advocates.
It's not known how many people were rounded up across the country, but immigration advocates say they've received reports of raids in California, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, New York and Kansas. The ICE operations are the first to take place since President Trump issued his Jan. 26 executive order expanding the priorities for enforcement.
President Trump has promised to deport 2 to 3 million immigrants with criminal records, but immigration experts say that while the Department of Homeland Security estimates there are 1.9 million "removable criminal aliens" in the United States, only about 690,000 are in this country illegally and have been convicted of a felony or serious misdemeanor.
Preliminary reports from southern California give an indication of the scope of the ICE operations. An official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, in southern California, David Marin, called the actions routine "surge operations" that target "priority cases," in other words, people in this country illegally who have criminal convictions.
"We made 161 arrests, and of those 161, 151 of those had prior criminal convictions. ... The majority of them were felons and those felons which had prior convictions included sex offenses, domestic violence, assault, robbery and weapons violations, just to name a few," said Marin in a press teleconference held late Friday.
Marin said that of the ten others, five had impending deportation orders or had been deported and had illegally returned to the United States. The remaining five had no criminal records, but were in this country without documents.
Immigrant advocates dispute officials' claims that the operations were routine.
"What they're trying to do is a really concerted effort to instill fear and terrorize our communities," said David Abud, an organizer with the National Day Labor Organizing Network based in Los Angeles told NPR.
"It's a way in which Trump and ICE are retaliating against sanctuary jurisdictions," he added.
As we reported in the Two-Way, the majority of people in this country illegally are concentrated in 20 metropolitan areas in the country.
The Washington Post quoted one immigration official who was not authorized to speak publicly because of the sensitive nature of the operation as saying, "Big cities tend to have a lot of illegal immigrants. They're going to a target-rich environment."
There were anecdotal reports of ICE staging traffic checkpoints and random sweeps of people suspected of being here illegally. ICE's Marin called those reports "dangerous and irresponsible."
Marin declined to discuss any connection between the raids and the president's recent executive order, except to say that the operations had been planned for weeks before that order was issued.
Democrats, advocates question ICE enforcement raids after hundreds of arrests
- ICE said "many" of the arrested individuals had prior felony convictions
- Fear is running high among immigrant communities after Trump's inauguration
Washington (CNN)Democrats
raised concerns Friday about immigration enforcement actions in recent
days -- though immigration officials say that only routine actions
targeting criminals were underway.
Fear
is running high among immigrant communities since President Donald
Trump's inauguration -- and after the recent publicized deportation of
an undocumented Arizona mother of two after a routine visit with
immigration officials, reports have been spreading of Immigration and
Customs Enforcement stepping up its actions in the southwestern US.
The
actions are the first concerted effort by ICE under the Trump
administration to arrest targeted undocumented immigrants for
deportation proceedings.
It's
unclear at this point in the nascent administration whether it was a
sign of things to come, or whether the actions were conducted under any
different procedures than could have been in place under the Obama
administration. It was the uncertainty, the publicity of the raids and
the high tensions raised by public comments on immigration by Trump
administration officials that had Democrats asking for more information.
"These reports show the serious
consequences of the president's executive order, which allows all
undocumented immigrants to be categorized as criminals and requires
increased enforcement in communities, rather than prioritizing dangerous
criminals," California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said in a statement
responding to media reports of the stepped up enforcement, including
some accounts that the actions were targeting low-priority undocumented
immigrants, including family men and women.
ICE
in Los Angeles said Friday it had conducted a five-day operation
targeting criminals and fugitives, and said that the vast majority of
those arrested had criminal histories.
Seeking
to push back on reports of indiscriminate raids, ICE released the
results of the operation from its Los Angeles office, saying about 160
foreign nationals were arrested during the week. Of those, 150 had
criminal histories, and of the remaining arrests, five had final orders
of removal or were previously deported. Ninety-five percent were male,
they said.
While
specific numbers weren't available, ICE said "many" of the arrested
individuals had prior felony convictions including violent charges like
child sex crimes, weapons or assault charges.
An
ICE official confirmed Atlanta had conducted a similar surge this week,
and roughly 200 arrests were made in Georgia, North Carolina and South
Carolina in a similar routine enforcement action. Texas Democratic Rep.
Joaquin Castro said in a statement that he had confirmed with ICE's San
Antonio field office that similar actions were conducted across Texas,
calling the action "Operation Cross Check." He said he would be
following up to make sure the actions were targeting the worst
offenders.
Full numbers for the actions across the country will be made available Monday, the agency said.
A
Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman said overall about the
agency's actions that everything is "routine," and are not part of
casting a widespread net.
"ICE
Fugitive Operations teams are out every day as part of routine, targeted
enforcement operations," said acting press secretary Gillian
Christensen. "These are existing, established fugitive operations teams.
ICE does not conduct sweeps or raids that target aliens
indiscriminately. ICE only conducts targeted enforcement of criminal
aliens and other individuals who are in violation of our nation's
immigration laws."
Still, as Trump
continues to talk about cracking down on illegal immigration, advocates
remain concerned that the new administration could be stepping up
enforcement against otherwise peaceful undocumented immigrants.
On
Thursday, protests sprang up at the deportation of Guadalupe Garcia de
Rayos, a 35-year-old mother of two, who had checked in with ICE at an
office in Phoenix the day before, as she had regularly since a 2008
conviction of using a fake Social Security number.
Friday, Democrats decried the actions nationwide as needlessly causing fear for immigrant communities.
"The
President wants to show off and it appears he has unleashed the
Department of Homeland Security to kick-out large numbers of immigrants
and anyone they encounter, without much oversight, review or due
process," said Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez. "The goal of
such policies is to inject fear into immigrant communities, frighten
families and children, and drive immigrants farther underground. It
damages public safety and the fabric of American communities while
putting a burden on local social services and the foster-care system."
Gutierrez's concerns were echoed by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, a Democrat from California.
"I
am outraged to hear of the recent ICE arrests in southern California.
If the Trump administration is genuinely concerned about threats to
American security, it should prioritize violent felons and others who
pose real danger," Roybal-Allard said in a statement. "My office has
been working to get detailed information from ICE."
Fellow California Rep. Lou Correa tweeted he was "deeply concerned" about the actions as well.
And
a city councilman from Austin, Texas, said he was concerned that ICE
was making a public show of force in his city as retribution for being a
sanctuary city.
"ICE actions like
these are beyond reprehensible," Greg Casar said in a statement. "They
instill fear in the community, and they make everyday people fear for
their lives."
While ICE
characterized the actions as routine, fear remains that the Trump
administration's recent executive order beefing up interior enforcement
of immigration laws could mean a vast expansion of deportations of
undocumented immigrants.
While the
Obama administration had clear guidance prioritizing deportation of
high-level criminals, an executive order signed by Trump in his first
week set up enforcement priorities that could include virtually any
undocumented immigrant living in the US.
Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration a central focus of his presidential campaign.
हिमालयखवर संवाददाता-
10th Feb 2017, Friday | २०७३ माघ २८, शुक्रबार २२:११
वासिङ्टन डिसी (अमेरिका)-
अमेरिकी इमिग्रेशन अर्थरिटीले यस साता करिब आधा दर्जन राज्यमा छापामारी
(रेड गरी ) सयौँ कानुनी रूपमा बस्ने कागजात विहिन आप्रावासीलाई पक्राउ
गरेको छ । अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्पद्धारा गत जनवरी अन्तिम साता
जारी आप्रावासीसंग सम्बन्धित कार्यकारी आदेश पछि यसरी कागजात विहिन
आप्रावासीलाई धरपकड गरिएको हो ।
अमेरिका बस्ने आधिकारिक कागजात विना
गरैकानुनी रूपमा बस्दै आएका र अपराधमा संलग्नलाई खोजी गर्न यसरी छापा
मारिएको भए पनि अपराध नगरेका समेत पक्राउ परेको वासिङ्टन पोष्टले संघिय
अधिकारीलाई उदृत गर्दै समाचारमा जनाएको छ । पुर्व राष्ट्रपति बाराक ओबामाका
वेलामा पनि यसरी छापा मारिएको भए पनि त्यसवेला यो खाली अपराधमा संलग्नलाई
पक्राउ गरी देश निकाला डिर्पोटेशनका लागि गरिएको थियो ।
अहिलेको रेड अमेरिकामा गैरकानुनी रूपमा
बस्दै आएका अनुमानित १ करोड १० लाखलाई फिर्ता पठाउने राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्पको
नीतिमा केन्द्रित छ । गैरकानुनी रूपमा बस्ने मध्ये करिब ३० लाख अपराधमा
संलग्न रहेको अनुमान छ । राष्ट्रपति डोनाल्ड ट्रम्पले चुनावी अभियानकै
क्रममा पहिलो चरणमा यस्ता अपराध गरेका गैरकानुनी रूपमा बसोवास गर्दै आएका
आप्रावासीलाई देश निकाला गर्ने घोषणा गरेका थिए । राष्ट्रपति भए लगत्तै
ट्रम्पले ओबामा प्रशासनमा भएको व्यवस्था परिवर्तन गरी सामान्य अपराध
गर्नेलाई पनि देश निकाला गर्ने नीति लिएका थिए ।
इमिग्रेशन अधिकारीले यस साता एटलान्टा,
सिकागो, न्युयोर्क, लसएञ्जल्स, नर्थ क्यारिलोना, र साउथ क्यारिलोनाका
कार्यस्थल, घर लगायतमा छापा मारी गैरकानुनी आप्रावासीलाई हिरासतमा लिएको
जनाएका छन् ।
छिमेकी देश मेक्सिकोले आफ्ना नागरिकलाई
विद्यमान परिस्थितिमा अमेरिका भित्र विशेष सतर्क हुन सुझाव दिएको छ । ६ वटा
राज्यमा गरिएको यो छापामारीमा नेपाल परे नपरेको अहिलेसम्म सार्वजनिक भएको
छैन । पक्राउ पर्नेमा अधिकांश ल्याटिन अमेरिकी देशका नागरिक रहेको
संचारमाध्यमले जनाएका छन् ।
आप्रावासी सम्वन्धि मामिला हेर्ने निकाय
डिपार्टमेण्ट अफ होमल्याण्ड सेक्युरिटी (डीएचएस) प्रवक्ता जिलियन
क्रिस्टेसन्ले अहिलेको रेडलाई नियमित भएको प्रतिक्रिया दिएका छन् । उनका
अनुसार सोमबार सुरु भएको रेड शुक्रवार दिउसो समाप्त भएको थियो, यस क्रममा
दर्जन ल्याटिन अमेरिकी देशका नागरिक फेला परेका छन् ।
डीएचएसले जानकारी दिए बाहेक अन्य क्षेत्रमा
पनि रेड गरिएको इमिग्रेशन अधिकारवादीको दाबी छ । उनीहरूका अनुसार
फ्लोरिडा, केन्सस, टेक्सस र नेर्थ भर्जिनियामा पनि रेड गरिएको छ । यस
क्षेत्रमा नेपालीहरू पनि बसोबास गर्छन् । अपराधमा संलग्न नभएका समेत रेडका
क्रममा पक्राउ परेकामा आप्रावासी समुदायमा चिसो पसेको छ । इमिग्रेसन
अधिकारवादीले यो रेडको विरोध गरेका छन् ।
रेडका क्रममा इमिग्रेशन एण्ड कस्टमस्
इर्फोस्मेण्ट (आईसीई) का अधिकारीले बिहीबार घर र कार्यस्थलमा केही घण्टा
घेरावन्दी गरी कयौँलाई हिरासतमा लिएको इमिग्रेशन अधिकारवादीले जनाएका छन् ।
आईसीईका फिल्ड डाइरेक्टर डेभिड मारिनले संवाददाताहरुसंगको कुराकानीमा एक
वर्ष भन्दा बढी जेल संजाय पाउने अपराधमा संलग्न १ सय ६० लाई पक्राउ गरेको
जानकारी दिएका थिए । सम्बन्धित अधिकृतका अनुसार यस मध्ये ३७ जनालाई
मेक्सिको डिर्पोट गरिएको छ ।
टेक्सस अस्टिन स्थित सपिंग सेन्टरमा आईसीई
एजेण्टले रेड गरिरहेको भिडियो सामाजिक सञ्जालमा राखिएको थियो । टेक्सस
लगायत केही राज्यका सर्वसाधारण हिड्डुल गर्ने केही स्थानमा आईडी चेक गरिएको
पनि जनाईएको छ । वैधाननिक रूपमा अमेरिका बस्न र काम गर्न पाउने कागजात
नभएका र एक वर्ष भन्दा बढी जेल संजाय हुने खालका अपराधमा संलगनलाई अभियानका
साथ फिर्ता पठाइने राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्पले बताउँदै आएका छन् । २० लाख भन्दा
बढी यस्ता व्यक्ति रहेको अनुमान छ । यो खर्चिलो र व्यवहारिक रूपमा झन्झटिलो
पनि छ ।
इमिग्रेशनवारेमा परामर्श दिइरहेका कानुन
व्यवसायीले यदि अमेरिका बस्ने वैधानिक कागजात छैन भने केही समय सतर्क हुन
सुझाव दिएका छन् । यसरी गैरकानुनी रूपमा बस्नु पहिला र अहिलेपनि उचित नभएको
हुदां कुनै वैकल्पिक उपाय सोच्नु पर्ने कानुन विज्ञहरुको सुझाव छ ।
राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्पले पदभार ग्रहण गरेकै
साता हस्ताक्षर कार्यकारी आदेशमा ७ वटा मुस्लिम देश सिरिया, इराक, इरान,
सोमालिया, सुडान, लिविया र यमन वाट आउनेलाई तिन महिना अस्थायी प्रतिबन्ध
लगाउने, मेक्सिको सीमामा पर्खाल निमार्ण, गैरकानुनी रूपमा अमेरिकामा पस्न र
बस्न खोज्नेलाई कडाई गर्ने उल्लेख छ । हाललाई अदालतले यो कार्यकारी
आदेशलाई रद्द गरेको छ ।
गैरकानुनी रूपमा वस्नेलाई फिर्ता पठाउने
कुनै नयाँ होइन । यसअघिका राष्ट्रपति बाराक ओबामाको आठ बर्षे कार्यकालमा
पनि वार्षिक सरदर ४ लाख गैरकानुनी आप्रावासीलाई अमेरिकाले फिर्ता पठाएको
थियो । यसमा वार्षिक झण्डै २ सयजति नेपालीपनि थिए । यसैले गैरकानुनी
आप्रावासीलाई फिर्ता पठाउने निरन्तर प्रकृया हो ।
अमेरिकामा मेक्सिको सिमावाट गैरकानुनी
रूपमा आउने विदेशीलाई रोक्न त्यहां पर्खाल लगाउने कार्यकारी आदेशमा उल्लेख छ
। यो ट्रम्पको चुनावी एजेण्डामा नै थियो । तर, पर्खाल वन्न केही समय
लाग्ने भए पनि सिमा सुरक्षामा जनशक्ति र स्रोत थपिएको छ ।
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