@ISIDEWITHQuestionsimmigrationStarted 8yrs agoActive 15hrs ago

Should immigrants be deported if they commit a serious crime?

In 2015 the U.S. House of Representatives introduced the Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2015 (Kate’s Law.) The law was introduced after San Francisco 32 year old San Francisco resident Kathryn Steinle was shot and killed by Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez on July 1, 2015. Lopez-Sanchez was an illegal immigrant from Mexico who had been deported on five separate occasions since 1991 and been charged with seven felony convictions. Since 1991 Lopez-Sanchez had been charged with seven felony convictions and deported five times by the U.S. Immigration and Naturaliza…  

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Yes
21%
No
67%
Yes
12%
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9%
Yes, as long as it is safe for them to return to their country
9%
No, only if they have entered the country illegally
2%
Yes, but after they have finished serving their sentence

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 @8TJ4YV9from Ontario  answered…4yrs4Y

If they have family in Canada, no, let them serve time in Canada.

 @8T8RK7Sfrom Alberta  answered…4yrs4Y

It doesn't matter to me which prison they are in

 @8SXBDSQfrom Ontario  answered…4yrs4Y

No, they should serve their sentence in Canada

 @8SCG5FRfrom Ontario  answered…4yrs4Y

If they are a canadian citizen then no. They should be treated like any other citizen.

 @8VHJHZ5from Alberta  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, but after they have finished serving their sentence and its safe to return to their home countrey

 @8SYC4LCfrom Ontario  answered…4yrs4Y

If they have citizenship, they should serve their sentance as a Canadian in Canada.

 @B3HJ6ZZfrom British Columbia  answered…4 days4D

Yes, but it should be dependent on the nature of the crime and whether the individual poses a continued risk to the public, or high likelihood of re-offending

 @B3FGWZDfrom Ontario  answered…6 days6D

i feel like if you deport them for doing an crime they should serve their time and go back to their lives

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…4mos4MO

Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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