CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Immigration arrests have risen sharply in 2017 compared to the previous year, after the Trump administration unveiled stricter immigration policies, which were decried by the U.S. bishops.<\/p>\nIn the first 100 days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on the subject, immigration arrests are up almost 40 percent compared with the same time last year.<\/p>\n
According to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency\u2019s Enforcement and Removal Operations deportation officers made 41,318 immigration arrests between Jan. 22 and April 29, 2017, more than 400 arrests per day and up from 30,028 made between Jan. 24 and April 30, 2016.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese statistics reflect President Trump\u2019s commitment to enforce our immigration laws fairly and across the board,\u201d ICE\u2019s acting director Thomas Homan stated.<\/p>\n
In January, President Trump had directed in an executive order that his administration intended on enforcing federal immigration law, and called for a wall be constructed on the U.S.-Mexico border as well as the construction of additional immigrant detention centers and the hiring of new immigration officials.<\/p>\n
Then in February, the Department of Homeland Security issued a memoranda implementing the order.<\/p>\n
The new DHS rules called for, among other things, speeding up deportations, the construction of new immigrant detention facilities, enforcement of federal immigration law by local law enforcement officers, and the publication of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, the New York Times had reported.<\/p>\n
Also, undocumented parents living in the U.S. who attempt to have their children smuggled into the country could be prosecuted for human trafficking under the new DHS rules.<\/p>\n
The chair of the U.S. bishops\u2019 migration committee warned that the rules would target vulnerable persons along with criminals.<\/p>\n
\u201cTaken together, these memoranda constitute the establishment of a large-scale enforcement system that targets virtually all undocumented migrants as \u2018priorities\u2019 for deportation, thus prioritizing no one,\u201d Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin, Tex. stated after the rules were issued.<\/p>\n
With local police officers enforcing federal immigration law, this could disrupt their relationships with immigrant communities, the bishop continued, as immigrants could not be \u201cfearful of cooperating\u2026in both reporting and investigating criminal matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
ICE reported that the rise in arrests was a result of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policy where criminals would primarily be targeted for arrest, but other undocumented persons, if discovered, would also be detained.<\/p>\n
Almost 75 percent of those arrested in 2017 \u2013 30,473 persons \u2013 were convicted criminals, ICE said, with convictions ranging from homicide and assault to drug-related charges. \u201cNon-criminal arrests,\u201d meanwhile, jumped to 10,800 in 2017, compared to 4,200 at the same time in 2016.<\/p>\n
\u201cICE agents and officers have been given clear direction to focus on threats to public safety and national security, which has resulted in a substantial increase in the arrest of convicted criminal aliens,\u201d acting director Thomas Homan stated. \u201cHowever, when we encounter others who are in the country unlawfully, we will execute our sworn duty and enforce the law.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a nation of laws, and ignoring orders issued by federal judges undermines our constitutional government,\u201d said Homan.<\/p>\n
Bishops of dioceses along the U.S.-Mexican border signed a joint statement in February calling for the dignity of immigrants to be respected.<\/p>\n
\u201cImmigration is a global phenomenon arising from economic and social conditions of poverty and insecurity,\u201d U.S. and Mexican bishops stated. \u201cIt directly displaces entire populations causing families to feel that migration is the only way to survive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe migrant has a right to be respected by international law and national law as he\/she faces the violence, criminality, and inhuman policies of governments as well as the world\u2019s indifference,\u201d they continued. \u201cRegardless of one\u2019s migration condition, the intrinsic human dignity that every person possesses must be respected in the person of the migrant.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are commonly subjected to punitive laws and are often mistreated by civil authorities in their countries of origin, the countries through which they travel, and the countries of their destination. It is essential that governments adopt policies that respect the basic human rights of undocumented migrants,\u201d they stated.<\/p>\n
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