ICE Shockingly Reopening Deportation Cases Against DACA "Dreamers"

Trump is working to deport young people despite promising to protect them, and before the Supreme Court rules.  This monstrous action cannot move forward.

In an escalation of its pursuit of undocumented immigrants, the Trump administration is moving to deport members of the very group that seemed until a few years ago the most protected: DACA recipients.

ICE has begun asking immigration courts to reopen administratively closed deportation cases against DACA recipients who continue to have no criminal record, or only a minor record.

DACA must be preserved until real immigration reform is done.  Deportation should not be a political weapon. 

 Immigration attorneys in Arizona confirmed at least 14 such cases being reopened since October, and CNN also found DACA recipients whose cases recently were reopened in Nevada and Missouri.

And that is just the beginning. ICE confirmed to CNN that all DACA recipients whose deportation cases have been administratively closed can expect to see them reopened. In an email, the agency stated that "re-calendaring of administratively closed cases is occurring nationwide and not isolated to a particular state or region."

Dreamers are Americans. Period.

The move to reopen deportation cases against Dreamers comes as the US Supreme Court considers whether to let the Trump administration end the program — and during oral arguments in November, at least some justices made it clear that they were accepting the president's assurances that ending DACA would not mean deporting Dreamers.

.... the cases they are now reopening show how ICE is preparing to deport DACA recipients if the Supreme Court ruling terminates the program.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/21/us/ice-reopening-dreamer-deportation-cases-invs/index.html