Arizona Rep. Yassamin Ansari and nine other members of Congress are demanding federal authorities answer their concerns about the Trump administration’s deportation of military veterans.
In a letter to the secretary of Defense, the secretary of Veterans Affairs and the secretary of Homeland Security, Ansari demands to know the current number of veterans facing deportation, as well as the number of veterans who’ve already been deported since President Donald Trump took office in January.
It also asks the feds to detail what immigration case assistance and information is being offered to veterans swept up in Trump’s efforts to deport immigrants.
The letter cites estimates that 10,000 or more veterans have been deported so far.
Among those facing deportation is a two-tour Arizona army vet detained by ICE in January.
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Officials at the Department of Homeland Security have accused Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva of “faking outrage” over her protest at an ICE raid west of downtown Tucson last week. -
Long before World War II, the U.S. Army rounded up Native Americans onto reservations — drawing in their new boundaries. And in Arizona, the federal government once again looked to those lands for another minority population — Japanese Americans — also forcibly rounded up by the military after the Pearl Harbor bombing in 1941. -
Prosecutors and investigators with the Pinal County Attorney’s Office are now, at times, working directly with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. -
The change applies to asylum seekers, refugees and other immigrants with legal status in the US. Normally, work permits last for as long as five years. But, under the new rule, that time frame is shortened to just 18 months. -
Sunday marked the 84th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor bombing – a shocking attack that drew the U.S. into World War II and unleashed a wave of anti-Japanese hysteria that had been bubbling for decades.
