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US authorities have arrested 121 people under nationwide enforcement operations to arrest and deport illegitimate migrants. Most of the migrants entered the country from the southern border while, some are lost asylum cases.
Jeh Johnson, the US Secretary of Homeland Security said that, since last weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is busy in the nationwide enforcement campaign to hold the illegal refugees and send back those who had entered unlawfully with family in the country.
Jeh Johnson said, "This should come as no surprise. I have said publicly for months that individuals who constitute enforcement priorities, including families and unaccompanied children, will be removed."
Johnson said, they were focusing on adults and children during last weekend's operations. They are detained after May 1, 2014 when they were crossing the southern border illicitly. The Southern border is shared with Mexico.
An immigration court has issued final orders to these immigrants and they have no exceptional appeal or claim for asylum or other humanitarian relief under US laws. As part of these operations, 121 individuals were taken into custody, primarily from Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina, and they are now in the process of being repatriated," he said.
Executive director of the National Immigration Forum, Ali Noorani, said that "Deportation raids instill fear in immigrant communities and deportation is not an acceptable substitute for the well-functioning of refugee and asylum processes for families with a credible fear of persecution."
Noorani said, "The approach DHS outlined is not safe or sustainable. It is a faulty logic for DHS to believe that if they deport people fleeing violence back to violence, others will never come to the US."
Johnson said, “The Homeland Security Secretary defended the action. "As I have said repeatedly, our borders are not open to illegal migration; if you come here illegally, we will send you back consistent with our laws and values."
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