Many of my colleagues have reported excellent stories on how the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies are not about who’s violating the law—they’re about pushing an anti-immigrant agenda.
We published another disturbing investigation today. Mother Jones’ Julia Lurie looked into cases of immigrants being released from ICE detention without having their key documents returned to them—documents that serve as proof of their active immigration cases, pending visa applications, or US citizenship, as well as work permits, Social Security cards, and driver's licenses. One immigration attorney told Julia that this practice was “more the rule than the exception.”
This means the federal government is forcing many immigrants to continue on with their lives without the documents that the government requires them to carry.
And as Julia points out:
Replacing an original work permit, which employers use to verify the legal authorization of prospective employees, can take months and cost hundreds of dollars. As a result, some immigrants—particularly those who are applying for jobs, or who lost their jobs while they were in detention—could be out of a job for months even though they have legal authorization to work.
The cruelty must stop.
—Alex Nguyen
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