The Cruelty of Donald J Trump

web17-CBPatBorder-1160x768.jpg CBP at Border Two memos signed by Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly on Monday are a grim blueprint for President Trump's promised mass deportations.

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The memos abandon any genuine attempt to prioritize immigration enforcement. Virtually every immigrant eligible for deportation — including almost all of the 11 million people in the United States without authorization — is now a target for detention and aggressive removal proceedings.

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Trump and Kelly threaten a massive expansion of shortcuts to deportation like expedited removal, which allows an ICE or CBP official, rather than an impartial judge, to have the only say on an immigrant’s future.

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The Trump-Kelly memos encourage state and local police, including those with records of racial profiling and brutality, to become immigration agents.

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The memos resurrect illegal and unwise programs like Secure Communities, which courts have held flouts the Fourth Amendment by detaining individuals without a judge’s probable cause determination, and 287(g), which deputizes state and local police as immigration agents.

  ACLU

The brewing battle between the city of Los Angeles and Trump Administration over immigration policies took a new turn Thursday when City Attorney Mike Feuer called on immigration agents “in the strongest possible terms" to stop identifying themselves as police.

In a letter to the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE, Feuer said the practice “undermines” public confidence in the LAPD.

  SCPR

And they can't afford to lose what little they have.

For years, immigration agents in Southern California initially have identified themselves simply as “police” when knocking on doors looking for people living in the country illegally, according to ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice.

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But that practice is coming under more scrutiny as the Trump Administration moves forward with plans to deport more people. Los Angeles is home to one of the largest populations of people living in the U.S. illegally in the country. Feuer argued if ICE agents in the city continue to use the word police to identify themselves – even if only initially – public safety will suffer.

“The city we serve will be less safe if any member of our large and diverse immigrant population is driven underground, dissuaded from providing valuable information and cooperation because they fear contact with our own police force,” Feuer said.

Good luck then.

The debate over ICE agents using the word police comes amid threats by President Trump that he will cut off federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities where police departments refuse to assist immigration authorities.

So maybe they could go back to being regular police instead of militarized goon squads if that happens.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.