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- The Independent
Trump administration reviewing all 55M people with US visas for potential deportable violations
The Trump administration said Thursday that it's reviewing all the more than 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations. The State Department says visas that allow people to stay in the United States are revoked any time if there are 'indicators of overstays, criminal activity, threats to public safety, engaging in any form of terrorist activity, or providing support to a terrorist organization.'
Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
The woke sanctuary city where cops are secretly helping ICE to arrest migrants behind Dem. mayor's back
Cops are secretly helping ICE arrest illegal migrants in a sanctuary city - reportedly behind the mayor's back. Acting ICE director Todd Lyons has claimed that police in Boston are defying their Democratic mayor to help the federal government. Lyons revealed on The Howie Carr Show on Wednesday that because of Boston's sanctuary city status, local law enforcement is prohibited from reporting crimes committed by undocumented migrants in certain circumstances. 'We have so many men and women on the Boston Police Department and other jurisdictions that are so pro-ICE, that want to work with us and that are actually helping us behind the scenes,' Lyons said. He added that some officers can't cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement out of fear they'll be fired due to the city's sanctuary status. Lyons said that ICE was ramping up operations in Boston, with plans to 'flood the zone.' 'Boston and Massachusetts decided to say that they wanted to stay sanctuary. Sanctuary does not mean safer streets,' he added. 'It means more criminal aliens out and about the neighborhood. But 100 percent, you will see a larger ICE presence.' Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has stood firm on the city's immigration policies, announcing in a press conference on Tuesday that they wouldn't be caving to federal pressure to revoke sanctuary status. She addressed a letter the city received from Attorney General Pam Bondi, which threatened to revoke federal funding if local officials didn't cooperate with deportations. The US Department of Justice sent the letters to Boston and other sanctuary cities to submit a plan of compliance by Tuesday. 'Sanctuary policies impede law enforcement and put American citizens at risk by design,' Bondi said in a recent press release on sanctuary cities. 'The Department of Justice will continue bringing litigation against sanctuary jurisdictions and work closely with the Department of Homeland Security to eradicate these harmful policies around the country.' Wu declared to a crowd in Boston that officials wouldn't bend to federal demands, slamming the Trump administration for 'causing so much fear and harm in our communities.' 'Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures,' Wu continued. Lyons seemed to reject the notion that immigration concerns were a result of the federal government's missteps, telling Carr that the blame should be placed on sanctuary cities. 'What I think local leaders don't understand, is they need to talk to the men and women on the ground, because … there are so many of these criminal aliens that keep getting released to go out and commit more crimes that the local law enforcement have to deal with,' he said on the radio show. Boston was one of several cities that Bondi named as cities with 'harmful' sanctuary policies, alongside Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and New Orleans. The federal government has threatened litigation against these cities and announced a lawsuit against New York City earlier this year for continuing to provide sanctuary city status. The local law in Boston limiting local police from working with ICE was first signed into law in 2014 by former Mayor Marty Walsh and reaffirmed last December. The act allows BPD to collaborate with ICE and the Department of Homeland Security on significant matters of public safety, including human trafficking, child exploitation, drug and weapons trafficking, and cybercrime. It prevents police from reporting undocumented migrants to federal authorities on matters of civil immigration enforcement or minor infractions. The Trust Act also prevents police from asking people for their immigration status, arresting someone based on ICE warrants when there is no criminal charge, and transferring people to ICE custody. The Trump administration's deportation crusade has put sanctuary cities at risk, with Bondi now ramping up calls for the policies to be revoked. Bondi said on Fox News earlier this week that her department would be working to cut federal funding for the cities that don't comply. 'We are going to send in law enforcement just like we did during the LA riots, just like we're doing here in Washington, DC, and if they're not going to keep their citizens safe, Donald Trump will keep them safe.' The federal government has maintained that sending the National Guard was to decrease crime, but local officials have pushed back that the militarization was excessive. Wu addressed Lyons interview at an unrelated event on Thursday, telling reporters, 'In Boston, we comply with and follow all of the laws, city, state, and federal, and we will not back down from the communities who have made us the safest major city in the country.' 'This administration needs to stop attacking cities to hide their own failures,' she added. Daily Mail reached out to the Boston Police Department for additional comment.
Telegraph
an hour ago
- Telegraph
‘Gay' Nigerian criminal can stay in UK despite using wife to claim asylum
A Nigerian jailed for violence has won a legal battle against deportation after claiming to be gay despite having been married to a woman and fathering a child by another. The man who arrived in Britain in 1983 made a series of initial asylum claims unrelated to his sexuality. Originally he claimed he would face persecution because of his political opinions. But when this was rejected, he sought leave to remain on the basis that he had married a woman living in the UK. After this argument was dismissed by the Home Office, he sought the right to remain after fathering a son. He claimed his removal from the UK would be a breach of his rights to a family life under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). Jailed for violence Soon after he was jailed for four years for violent disorder, leading to the Government issuing an order for him to be deported. Once out of jail, he said he entered into a three-year relationship with a man, after which he submitted a claim to remain in Britain on the basis that he would be persecuted for being gay if returned to his home country. After a final appeal hearing, immigration judges ruled that they were 'satisfied to the lower standard' that he was gay, which would expose him to the 'real risk of persecution' if he was returned to his African homeland. 'Accordingly the appellant has a well-founded fear of persecution and he therefore qualifies for protection under the Refugee Convention,' they ruled. 'We are also satisfied that the appellant's removal would breach his rights under articles 3 and 8 of the ECHR.' Article 3 of the ECHR protects against persecution, torture and ill treatment. The case has been revealed in court documents, obtained by The Telegraph, and is the latest where migrants or foreign criminals have used human rights legislation to avoid deportation. Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, is proposing to restrict judges' powers to grant asylum under the ECHR articles 3 and 8 amid concerns a third of cases are now being approved for 'exceptional' reasons. The man, granted anonymity by immigration judges, claimed he had a gay relationship with a friend while at school in Africa. He came to Britain in 1983 but overstayed and left in 1992 before re-entering the UK in 1996, when he unsuccessfully claimed asylum on the basis of his political opinion. Marriage ends in divorce After unsuccessfully applying to stay on the basis of his marriage to a Portuguese woman in 2000, the couple divorced. According to the man he was 'in denial about his sexual orientation' when he started another relationship with a woman. They had a son in 2001. Two years later, he was convicted of violent disorder, after which he mounted a legal effort to avoid deportation, culminating in an appeal in 2015 based on the fact that he was gay. In evidence, he cited communications from his family in Nigeria over his relationship with a man from 2010 to 2013. He told the court they had told him to end it, saying he was 'bringing the family into ridicule and shame'. They said they would inform the security services of his sexuality. After his case was initially rejected, it was put before an upper tribunal where the judges accepted he had made 'numerous unsuccessful attempts to regularise his stay in the UK' and had 'a clear motivation for maintaining his claim to be gay and to fabricate having had a further relationship with a man'. 'However, we consider that the appellant's account should not be rejected solely because of his immigration history or because he did not rely on his sexual orientation to remain in the UK prior to 2015,' they said. They also found his evidence to be 'plausible and internally consistent,' ultimately ruling that his appeal should be upheld.
