Each ICE operation generates roughly $196,000 in monthly losses for nearby businesses and communities. (That's 11x the government's administrative cost of a deportation.)
Why?
ICE activity decreases foot traffic in those public areas.
Republicans brought a mom to testify about her daughter's murder. She said, "I don't think it has to do with ICE. We're not a country without illegals coming in, without people coming in from other countries. That's what our country is built on." Watch how this got restated:
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John Holbein
“Mass deportation and draconian limits on legal immigration are two sides of the same coin.” www.ms.now/opinion/dhs-...
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The memo said DH would require most immigrants to leave the United States to attempt to obtain their green cards.
I testified before the House Oversight Committee's Task Force on Constitutional Rights and Institutional Abuses at a hearing entitled: "Amnesty and Chaos: Abuse of U.S. Immigration Policy." I told them the only amnesty happening now is for ICE agents who violate our rights.
