Trump reportedly wants the ability to deport active duty troops’ family members
 

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Families are scrambling to secure legal protections while they last.

President Donald Trump’s war on immigration is about to see yet another escalation with the administration reportedly targeting families of active-duty service members.

According to attorneys familiar with the plans who spoke to NPR on Thursday, the administration is taking aim at certain accommodations for members of the military whose family members are undocumented immigrants and have no means for adjusting their immigration status.

“Parole in place” currently grants these family members a reprieve from deportation and the opportunity to apply for a green card. It is only available, however, in one-year increments. Family members who entered the country legally but overstayed a visa are not eligible, though they could instead receive deferred action for up to two years.

The premise of the “parole in place” program is to ensure that members of the military can focus on the expectations of their deployment without worrying that their family members back home will be kicked out of the country. As immigration attorney Margaret Stock told NPR, “The troops can’t concentrate on their military jobs when they’re worried about their family members being deported.”

Though the administration has not publicly confirmed its plan to end the program, attorneys like Stock have heard tell that the option is “being terminated” and are trying to secure as many parole in place applications for their clients as they can before that happens. Once the change is made, parole in place will reportedly only be available in very rare circumstances.

The administration has already cracked down on the ways the military can provide a path to citizenship. Previously, noncitizen military recruits could apply for naturalization after serving one day of active duty. Under the Trump administration, they must serve 180 days unless they’re in a combat zone.

The Trump administration has also begun dismantling a program started by President George W. Bush called “Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI)” that recruited immigrants with special skills to serve in the military by offering them an easier path to citizenship. The program was frozen in 2016 over security concerns.

Last year, the Pentagon began discharging MAVNI recruits and apparently was subjecting those who had naturalized through the program to “continuous monitoring” with biennial security checks. Earlier this year, a federal judge ordered the Pentagon to end discrimination against these citizens.

News of the latest crackdown comes as Trump repeatedly teases unprecedented nationwide raids on undocumented immigrants. Though Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) typically manages no more than 400,000 deportations in any given year, Trump has promised that “millions of illegal aliens” will be deported.

Meanwhile, conditions at the border continue to deteriorate, as the administration denies blankets, soap, and toothbrushes to children in detention facilities while adults are so overcrowded they must stand on toilets to breathe.

This is fucked up and cruel

If you don't belong here you got to go!!!!

Trump is changing the rules that were in place at the time these people volunteered their lifes for our country in return for citizenship after serving.

Even you have to admit that's fucked up.

If it's a problem, they can join the military

They already did dumb fuck...

no their illegal asshole family.

No, what's fucked up is they serve a day and get it.

What's wrong with that?

No they're not moron.

Pay attention!

Your ass is getting dead eye stupid lately

They're here legally on the “Parole in place” program.

what dogg??? can you see it???? :helpme:helpme the forth line in the article. get them the fuck out of here! they are going to get caught and get deported. trump is on the right track. by the sounds of it they have been deported and came back. that is why the status can't change. this can't be overturned
"military whose family members are undocumented immigrants and have no means for adjusting their immigration status."

They're here legally on the “Parole in place” program.

Says so right there in the article.

It also says Trump wants to change the program so that their family members can be deported now when they couldn't be deported before under the program.

There's a special place in hell for people like you that want the families of people serving our military to be deported well they're serving overseas. :321GFY

Any bad that comes your way you have earned it 10 fold with this shit :2 cents:

yeah to hell with honesty! serving in darkness. you say things that do not add up. you say they are here legally but they are undocumented. the soldier worries about their illegal alien family who is here illegally. cry me a river blade so we can put them on a boat to the south! :)

They are not undocumented lol

you think the family of service members are undocumented?

Legal status does not rely on documentation. You can be documented and here illegally(like people who overstay their visa). You can be undocumented and be here legally (like dome asylum-seekers).

These soldiers went into the military being told their family was safe from deportation as long as they were serving and that they would get citizenship after serving their term.

Now Trump wants to break that agreement and send their family back while they're overseas serving in our military.

Breaking agreements with American military servicemen is the most unamerican unpatriotic fucked-up thing a president can do, and doing it while they're serving overseas, you are supporting this wow what the fuck.

I dont have a problem with any of this, except:

1: I would make it 365 days active duty and/or get deployed to apply for naturalization.

2: focus on deporting the undocumented family members that have been commiting crimes/being a nuisance. I ain't down with deporting a soldiers grandma who aint bothering nobody.

you say what you want. they are leaving. right they are in violation now because they didnt renew or were denied for who the hell knows. they are screwed now. nothing is stopping them from joining their family when they get out of service.

Lmao brass quoting blade is the only reason I know she still alive.

The gay racist feminist white jussie arguing with the real life OG Clayton Bigsby Crip is hilarious.

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Yall naybas or trays?

neighborhood outa tha Cpt

They are not undocumented.. Jesus since you became a Red Hat you got fucking stupid. You are proving that conservationism is a brain disease that turns people into uninformed morons...

you are the stupid fucker posting illegal alien bullshit. get a prayer cloth and head down to the south side of the american border

It's like he's competing in an imaginary contest of who can be the biggest, most evil asshole on the planet.

compliance = nazi,kkk,evil etc,etc if you like them they can skirt the law. hell just let them all! that is called amnesty.

Democrats are just looking for more votes, so one guy serves a day and his entire family can stay in the US. that's something that needs to changed

Fucking Trump wants to deport the families and children of SOLDIERS who fight FOR your country. Are you that blind?

Didn't you brag once that you "Served your country" in a submarine or some bullshitshit like that? Now I know its not true. If you were ever really brave enough to serve your country, you would be brave enough to stand up to this action. Who is the coward again, Vendildo? You are the coward. Or Liar. Both.

You are just looking for another excuse to keep sitting on your fat ass and do sweet fuck all. You would rather lick Trump's asshole than admit he's less than perfect.

Why don't you just post with ONE nic from now on? Delete all the rest and have some integrity :2 cents:

idiot...

idiot...

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It is wrong to let poor people with no choice being recruited in an army to kill others or being killed.

Trump is changing the agreement, that's why they're leaving, no other reason. Why aren't you paying attention? It's like you've turned into a red hat and you have no ability to absorb information and you're dead set on repeating the same shit without acknowledging facts that don't agree with your agenda.