'A Death Sentence': Trump Reportedly Moving to Deport Kids With Cancer, HIV, and Other Deadly Illnesses
"This is a new low for Trump. The administration is now literally deporting kids with cancer."
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This needs to be further addressed. Maddow grabbed it and ran last night by using HALF the reopoirt and leaving out that ICE is taking over the application process for families wishing to stay due to medical concerns.
Painted it as - GET OUT IN 33 DAYS - no further options - while this is simply not the case. Sure did make Trump look bad though eh, Rache?
Josh? What say you?
The poster who almost never answers a question wants me to answer his question.
TFF.
But okay. Let's address it.
I posted a quote and a source.
You posted a claim that Maddow was wrong, but you posted no link and no actual quote.
I say you were and are full of shit, whether you are right about this story or not.
And the signs are not very good that you are right about this one!
1. "Families of kids receiving medical care in the U.S. got letters saying they have to leave within 33 days or face deportation and a temporary ban on returning."
Do you deny this part of the story? ICE will now be able to decide whether undocumented immigrants getting treatment for serious medical conditions can stay in the country, WBUR and the Associated Press reported Monday.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency that handles matters like naturalization and adjustment of status, had previously handled cases through the "medical deferred action" program. But these requests — essentially a form of short-term deportation relief for people getting treated for conditions like cancer, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy — are now being referred to ICE for “consideration,” a USCIS spokesperson told VICE News.
Do you deny this part of the story? “USCIS field offices will no longer consider non-military requests for deferred action, to instead focus agency resources on faithfully administering our nation’s lawful immigration system,” a spokesperson told VICE News.
I deny the latter half of that because it implies that the folks ICE will now be evaluating are all here illegally, which they have no way of knowing at this time (but the track record suggests it is not true). ICE took control over the program on August 7. And last week, immigrants who were in the program in the Boston area received letters notifying them they no longer qualified, according to both the AP and the WBUR reports. The immigrants who received these letters were largely parents of chronically ill children. Under the deferred action program, they were not only temporarily protected from deportation but also allowed to legally work in the country while their kids received medical treatment.
Do you deny this part of the story? Anthony Marino, director of legal services for the Irish International Immigrant Center, told WBUR that at least five families who receive legal services from the center are affected by the change. Those families received letters from the government saying they have to leave within 33 days of the issue date or else face deportation and a temporary ban on returning to the U.S.
Massachusetts politicians slammed the recent change. “By no longer considering medical deferred action requests for immigrants, the Trump administration is now literally deporting kids with cancer,” Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey said on Facebook.
Do you deny this part of the story? Do you dispute Senator Markey's claim?! [/b]
Cuccinelli also regularly makes the rounds on cable news, where he has defended the Trump administration’s attempts to limit asylum-seekers and other immigrants from coming to the U.S. He recently admitted that the Department of Homeland Security’s changes to the Flores Settlement agreement, a 1997 court settlement defining the rights migrant children have in the U.S., are intended as a “deterrent.”
Nothing to deny here.
So, Kid, I say that it sounds like
you have been horn-swoggled
again and that Ms. Maddow did not overreact in the slightest.
ICE's "review" process is meaningless until and unless one has cause to believe a fair hearing will be given. In a country that is now
routinely having children under 10 represent themselves in a court of law, there is no basis for believing that a fair hearing is being given to any of these people.
Find me somebody who got one of those letters with the "33 days or else" and was allowed to stay after the ICE review and we can discuss it again. I might even apologize for my categorization of you on this occasion!
Not that I expect the same courtesy from you.
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