Some immigrants are concerned that routine records with immigration authorities are more vulnerable to being detained, since President Donald Trump and his administration increase arrests and deportations throughout the country.
This week, a 30 -year -old Venezuelan immigrant who had periodically register mother Miami Miami. .
The mother, whose name is being retained to protect her son, told her to be presented at an Immigration Supervision Office at Delray Beach on Monday afternoon to follow up on her application for immigration and “fix something … And that was a lie, “he said.
The mother said she waited five hours for her son to finish her appointment, but instead, she saw him be escorted by immigration officers.
His son has lived in the United States since he was 6 years old, he said, and despite informing his appointment, he was not given a fair opportunity to fight a deportation order placed against him.
“They did not give us the opportunity to tell us at least: ‘Look, you have a deportation order, we want them to eliminate you in February or something,'” said the mother.
In a certain year, thousands of undocumented immigrants throughout the country regularly report ICE. These routine appointments help immigration officials to monitor those who are not a priority for deportation, since immigrants seek legal alternatives to remain in the United States.
Immigration officials also have additional supervision programs that allow them to monitor undocumented people through GPS ankle monitors, by telephone and other types of monitoring. According to ICE, there are almost 179,000 people who are monitored through these programs throughout the country.
Two immigration lawyers based in New York whose names are being retained to protect their clients said they began to notice a change after Trump was elected president in November. People were asked in the state who have registered in one of these immigration supervision programs, or have been registered with the ice once or twice a year, to inform before and, in dozens of cases since, they said, His clients ended up being arrested and deported.
Ice Field’s office in New York City did not comment and sent NBC News to the ICE National Office, which did not respond immediately.
‘Much fear’
There are immigrants who go to ice records that do not have deportation orders and are in the process of trying to adjust their immigration status. Others may have such orders, but they appeal or are not aware that they have a deportation order until they are presented to their routine record.
That is what happened to a mother who was deported this week with her little daughter, a day after informing her check-in, said one of the lawyers.
The mother had not been informed that she had lost an appeal in her case of immigration before she presented to her scheduled appointment with her daughter. Instead, she learned during the check-in and, by then, the mother could not do much to fight her case, said the lawyer.
A recent memorandum of the Trump administration expanded the powers of “discretion of application of the application” of immigration officials. This allows them to avoid the regular immigration law and accelerate the deportations of any person with an elimination order, regardless of whether they are considered a priority or not.
The lawyers said they hope to see more of these cases throughout the country. Currently, almost 1.4 million people have pending deportation orders. Anecdotally, New York immigration lawyers said they have seen an increase in the number of people who have been ordered eliminated without a hearing. They say this means that more immigrants can appear in their ice records without knowing that they can have a deportation order.
However, immigrants do not have many options: the lack of presentation of a routine ice event harms its possibilities to remain in the United States and can even lead to a deportation order.
They want to comply and go to appointments, according to a lawyer, “but there is a lot of fear, obviously, a lot of anxiety.”
Maria Bilbao is part of the Miramar protection circle, a coalition of community members who meet outside the ICE field office in the city of Miramar, south of Florida, every Wednesday to provide support to immigrants to They present to routine appointments.
On Wednesday morning, Bilbao met a Colombian woman and a Cuban man who appeared in her ice routine in Miramar and was told to inform the Immigration Supervision Office at Delray Beach, where the Venezuelan immigrant of 30 was years arrested on Monday.
The Immigration Supervision Office at Delray Beach is not an ice field office; It is led by a private company hired by the US National Security Department and ICE to operate an “intensive supervision program” intended to serve as an alternative to detention.
But according to Bilbao, “what is happening now is strange.” Instead of routine supervision visits, “they are being arrested more frequently,” he said in Spanish.
In the eight years, Bilbao has been helping immigrants with their ice registration appointments, had rarely heard of people arrested for deportation in that installation.
Ice Field’s office in Miami did not respond to NBC News email asking how many people were arrested on Monday at Delray Beach and if detainees face deportation or not. A NBC Miami reporter witnessed at least six people who were arrested that day.
A woman who accompanied her cousin to her routine appointment in Delray Beach on Monday morning, and saw him retired by immigration authorities, told NBC Miami that he believed once again, but this time they were caught by surprise and surprise and They took, “he said.
In response to the accusations, Garrett Ripa, the interim deputy director of ICE field operations in Miami, told NBC Miami “there is no truth in that.”
When asked if undocumented immigrants would be detained or deported, regardless of whether they have a criminal record, Ripa said: “Each individual in the United States that is removable or inadmissible from the United States, regardless of whether they have a crime or not, is Potentially an individual with whom we could take an application action. “
“Now, does that necessarily mean that we are going to take that person to immigration custody? Not necessarily, there are other ways that we can explore, ”he said.
‘It’s a nightmare’
The people arrested during their ice records are not new. It has happened under several previous administrations, even during Trump’s first mandate in 2017, which Bilbao said he led to the creation of the Miramar protection circle.
“At that time, we call them ‘silent incursions,” said Bilbao.
“So, we expected something like that to happen again this time, because it is the easiest way to deport people,” he said. “It’s a nightmare.”
On Tuesday, the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, reiterated Trump’s promise to carry out “the largest deportation program in the history of the United States.”
“If you are an individual, a foreign citizen, who enters the United States of America illegally, you are, by definition, a criminal,” Leavitt said.
Being undocumented is considered a civil crime, not a crime. But it is considered a crime when an undocumented immigrant who was previously deported enters the United States without permission.
The woman who saw her cousin being arrested at Delray Beach on Monday said Monday: “These people are not bad people, these people are not criminals … The person, my family member, took today, is not a Criminal.