VOA: Deportations of Africans up in 2016; very cool
data base, by Ann Corcoran 5/22/17
You’ve been hearing the news here and at other news outlets about the stepped-up
deportations of Somalis back to their homeland. Many failed asylum seekers are
in the mix.
Asylum, for new readers, is, in a
way, the other side of the same refugee coin. Either ‘refugees’ are
chosen abroad (usually by the UN these days) and are flown to your towns after
supposedly proving that they are persecuted people, or one gets in to the US
either illegally or through some temporary legal way and then applies for
asylum.
It is difficult (impossible I think)
to find photos of Somalis being deported from the US, but there are an unending
supply of the Saudi deportations in 2014. Saudi Arabia deported as many as
12,000 Somalis that year. I wonder did Trump ask the Saudis why they don’t take
any refugees, including their fellow Muslims?
When the wannabe ‘refugee’ cannot
prove his or her case—that they will be persecuted if sent home—then they are
supposed to go home! Conversely, if granted asylum, the
migrant is then given all the rights of a ‘refugee’ who was chosen abroad and
flown here and will be put on track for US citizenship. Now, under the Trump Administration, more of those who failed in their
asylum bid are being found, detained and sent home.
By the way, this up-tick in
deportations is news that should be sent far and wide so as to discourage even
more illegal entry and flimsy asylum claims that clog up the courts.
DHS should
actually promote an ad campaign around the world trumpeting the news of
stepped-up deportations! Here is Voice of America on the news about Africans, but more importantly I learned
about a new and very cool data base.
The United States has expelled about 326 Somali nationals since
January. That number is greater than the total for all
Somalis expelled from the country in 2016. This is the third consecutive year
in which the number of Somalis deported by the U.S. government has risen. The
rising numbers have increased immigrants’ fears of raids, detentions and
deportations.
The deportations of Somali citizens
appear to be part of a larger movement, according to the Transactional
Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. It found that in the first
three months of 2017, the U.S. government ordered the deportation of more than
1,200 Africans. Citizens of Ghana, Nigeria, Somalia and Kenya have received the
most removal orders.
Recent deportation orders are
undoing a ten-year-long trend. From 2006 to 2016, the
number of Africans deported every year fell from 2,100 to about 1,000. If the
trend continues, four times more Africans will be deported by the end of this
year than during 2016. Continue reading here.
Now check out the Transactional Records Access
Clearinghouse! Here is one page that I screenshot
to show you what interesting stuff is archived there.(see original post)
On this page we see that there were
19 deportations for reasons of national security in fiscal year 2017 (that
fiscal year began on October 1, 2016). You can learn in what states and what
courts those cases came from and the nationality of the person to be deported.
From this screenshot page, we note that there was one, an Iraqi, ordered by the
court in Detroit to be removed.
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