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One of my first acts will be to get all of the drug lords, all of the bad ones.

We have some bad, bad people in this country that have to go out.

Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric about ridding the United States of dangerous outsiders is now becoming a reality.

The migration raids some communities on edge after a string of deportation raids in at least six states.

Eight-year-old Kelly was born in the United States but her parents are undocumented and at the mention of her father currently in ice detention, she can't stop crying.

Her mother, among those living in fear that their families may soon be torn apart.

In Texas, agents with immigration and customs enforcement or ice entered the El Paso County Courthouse last week

in order to arrest an undocumented woman who'd gone to court seeking a protective order against her alleged domestic abuser.

Several studies show that immigrants actually commit fewer violent crimes than the population at large but as we are reminded every day, facts are of no concern to an administration swept into office on the politics of xenophobia and lies.

So now with two new executive orders in hand and guidelines for their implementation released this week, the Department of Homeland Security is dismantling the protocols that are obliged immigration police to prioritize the most flagrant or dangerous cases involving the undocumented.

Immigration officers are now going to have much broader discretion to decide who to round up in the first place.

So practically speaking here, if an agent goes on a raid to find a criminal undocumented immigrant, anyone else who happens to be with that person at the same time who's also here unlawfully may now be deported.

This includes those who have been convicted of any criminal offense charged with any criminal offense committed acts that constitute perhaps a chargeable criminal offense or, quote,

otherwise pose a risk to public safety or national security. So basically everyone. Immigration lawyer Mazoffer Chishti says a zero tolerance image is what the Trump administration seeks to portray, but he also believes it's in large part just smoke and handcuffs.

You know, I think the effort here is to create a feeling that this is a different day in the world of immigration enforcement and there's a new sheriff in town, the roundup all 11.2 million people in the country is physically, constantly, legally and operationally impossible.

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