{"id":37537,"date":"2025-01-21T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37537"},"modified":"2025-01-21T21:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T03:46:11","slug":"trump-says-ice-can-arrest-people-at-churches-and-schools-directs-agency-to-use-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=37537","title":{"rendered":"Trump says ICE can arrest people at churches and schools, directs agency to use \u2018common sense\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WashingtonCNN\u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/strong>Federal immigration authorities will be permitted to arrest people and carry out enforcement actions in and near places such as churches and schools, marking a departure from long-standing policy to avoid so-called sensitive areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman announced the end of two directives in a statement, giving agents more authority over whether they carry out enforcement and eliminating a legal pathway for migrants seeking to come to the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCriminals will no longer be able to hide in America\u2019s schools and churches to avoid arrest. The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a key example of how enforcement is going to be different under the new Trump administration from the Biden administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement set a policy in 2011 preventing agents from making arrests in sensitive locations. The Biden administration put out similar guidance. Immigrant advocates have shared concerns over stripping that policy, arguing that doing so would stoke fear in immigrant communities and keep children from going to school or people from seeking care at hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The second directive includes the phaseout of parole programs that allowed certain migrants to temporarily live and work in the United States. Republicans have repeatedly said the Biden administration abused the parole program by extending it to multiple nationalities. The statement doesn\u2019t clarify which programs will be phased out, but says the program will be returned to a \u201ccase-by-case basis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Biden-Harris Administration abused the humanitarian parole program to indiscriminately allow 1.5 million migrants to enter our country. This was all stopped on day one of the Trump Administration. This action will return the humanitarian parole program to its original purpose of looking at migrants on a case-by-case basis,\u201d the statement says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/01\/21\/politics\/ice-can-arrest-people-at-churches-and-schools\/index.html\">cnn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WashingtonCNN\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Federal immigration authorities will be permitted to arrest people and carry out enforcement actions in and near places such as churches and schools, marking a departure from long-standing policy to avoid so-called sensitive areas. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman announced the end of two directives in a statement, giving agents more authority over whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":37538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2450,3414,1255],"class_list":["post-37537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-arrest","tag-churches","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37540,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37537\/revisions\/37540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}