We are deporting
Somalis—4,000 are in the pipeline!, by Ann Corcoran
4/11/17
Although, much to my dismay, the Trump
Administration is continuing to admit refugees (including hundreds of Somalis),
I’m happy to see news like this about illegal alien Somalis being found and
deported to Somalia.
For years we didn’t send Somalis back even
when they committed one crime after another, but at least this portion of the
Trump agenda is being carried out. (BTW, the theory about not sending illegal
migrants, even criminals, back to hellhole countries has been that it is too
cruel for them and they will be in danger there.)
From the Voice of America: Somalia’s U.S. ambassador says his embassy has
learned that U.S. immigration agents are planning to deport about 4,000 Somali
nationals now living in the United States.
“We learned through immigration sources
that the total number of the Somalis that are in the books of [U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement] to be removed are close to 4,000,” Ahmed Isse Awad
told VOA’s Somali service Saturday. “Most of them are not in detention
centers.” [Good luck finding them! They are
probably on the way to Canada!—ed]
Since Somalia’s embassy in Washington
reopened in November 2015, the ambassador said, about 170 Somali immigrants who
either ran afoul of U.S. law or had their asylum applications rejected have
been deported to Mogadishu, the Somali capital.
Most of those previously deported had
applied for but been denied political asylum in the U.S., he added. Another
group of Somali applicants whose requests for asylum have been denied are now
in detention centers or prisons, awaiting deportation.
Is Virginia a magnet for criminal aliens? ICE agents recently arrested 82 people
from 26 nations during a five-day operation in and around the U.S. capital. According to a statement from ICE, 68 of those
detained March 26-30 had previous criminal convictions, for crimes including
armed robbery, larceny and drug offenses. All but three were arrested in the
state of Virginia.
Be sure to see the whole story. VOA reports on one Somali deported in the past who
simply returned with a new name. He has been here for decades. How
many more like him are out there?
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/we-are-deporting-somalis-4000-are-in-the-pipeline/
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