By Bill Spadea
This post originally appeared at NJ 101.5
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On an interesting related note to the immigration discussion we’ve been having for the past few days, I thought I’d address something I heard recently.
One of my libertarian friends shared a criticism of some of the ICE-detractors claiming that American citizens being mistakenly held in detention centers and being deported! Well as you can imagine, that caught my attention. So I did a little research…
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First of all, those detained in reported cases were arrested for committing other crimes or they were children of illegal immigrants. So this idea that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is profiling and rounding up Americans just to add to the detention centers is absurd.
On an interesting related note to the immigration discussion we’ve been having for the past few days, I thought I’d address something I heard recently.
One of my libertarian friends shared a criticism of some of the ICE-detractors claiming that American citizens being mistakenly held in detention centers and being deported! Well as you can imagine, that caught my attention. So I did a little research…
First of all, those detained in reported cases were arrested for committing other crimes or they were children of illegal immigrants. So this idea that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is profiling and rounding up Americans just to add to the detention centers is absurd.
