The USA began to deport Europeans more often

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The deportation volumes of Europeans are expected to exceed those of last year. Previously, Europeans living in America were not expelled as often as Latin Americans, Asians, and other illegal migrants. But now they are also beginning to realize that they are not insured against the persecution of President Donald Trump regarding illegal immigration, and are concerned about this.

The number of Europeans deported from the United States this fiscal year may exceed last year’s results, according to data provided by Associated Press Immigration and Customs Enforcement. From Oct. 2, 2016, to June 24, more than 1300 Europeans were expelled, compared with 1450 during the entire fiscal year of 2016, the last under President Barack Obama. The agency did not provide data by calendar year.

In San Jose, California, an HIV-infected Russian asylum seeker faced possible deportation after his visa was overdue. In Chicago, Polish and Irish community groups say they see requests for immigration and citizenship-related services grow as people seek legal protection.

In Boston, John Cunningham, a prominent Irishman who had his visa renewed for 14 years, was sent back to Ireland last week, a fact that has left the local Irish expat community deeply concerned. “People are very worried and afraid to come out,” says Ronnie Millar of the Boston Irish International Immigrant Center. “Because if it happened to John, it could happen to anyone.”

Europeans make up about 440 of the roughly 000 million people living illegally in the United States, according to the Migration Policy Institute. Since Trump was elected last November, the U.S. has deported 11 foreigners, up from 167 during the entire 350 fiscal year. Most of those deported are immigrants from Latin America, of whom about 240 are Mexican. Among Europeans, the largest proportion are Romanians, of whom 255 were deported in fiscal year 2016. Another 93 Spaniards, 000 British, 193 Russians and 2017 Poles. These countries also led the way in the number of deportations in the last fiscal year. Then 117 Romanians, 102 subjects of the United Kingdom, 81 Poles, 74 Spaniards and 176 Russians were deported.

Immigrant advocates say they urge people to know their rights if they are arrested and so that parents can take care of their children if they are detained. “We believe the problem with such a high deportation rate is that our public organizations do not know who is being deported and why, and cannot send immigration lawyers to help them,” says Dmitry Daniel Glinsky, president of the Council of Russian-Speaking Communities of Manhattan and the Bronx.

In California, San Jose resident Denis Davydov was detained for more than a month after returning from a vacation in the US Virgin Islands. In the end, he was released after his lawyer said that Davydov was allowed to return because he is currently seeking political asylum because he is gay and HIV-infected. But if his petition is rejected, he will be forced to return to Russia.

Davydov says the experience of detention, the uncertainty he has felt since applying for asylum, leaves him vulnerable. “Before this I thought I was doing everything right, but now I’m afraid it’s not enough. “I don’t know what else I can do,” he said. -I feel like I could be detained again anywhere. At the airport or on the street."

At the Polish American Association in Chicago, executive director Magdalena Dolas said her organization was encouraged to talk about what residents should do if immigration officials come to their homes. “People are worried about their rights,” she said. “They have awareness, but they also have anxiety.” The Chicago Center for Irish Immigrants now receives three times as many requests for immigration and legal services as it did a year ago, said Michael Collins, the center's executive director. Nationwide, 18 Irish people have been deported this fiscal year, compared with 26 deportations for all of last fiscal year, according to ICE data.

The Cunningham case remains a relevant precedent among Boston's immigrant Irish community. “Rumors spread very quickly. Don't go to court, don't open doors unless you're expecting someone,” says Benny Murphy, a 32-year-old bartender in Boston who was living in the country illegally until he married a US citizen three years ago. Many believe that Cunningham simply forgot the golden rule of living in the shadows: keep your head down. A few months before his arrest, he appeared on an Irish news program where he talked about living illegally in America.

Cunningham, who declined to comment on this article through his lawyer, was also not crystal clear. A warrant was issued for his arrest for not being able to stand trial over a dispute in the amount of 1300 dollars with a client of his business under an electricity supply contract, and according to the documents it is clear that he was not a licensed electrician.

Lawyers complain that Trump, by taking a hard line against immigrants, is deporting many honest taxpayers. Many of them are raising children who are now US citizens. The Obama administration, by contrast, deported only the most serious criminals. Many of those living here illegally were lulled into a "false sense of security" during the Obama years, said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy research at the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates for stricter immigration policies. “This is a return to more traditional measures in relation to migrants,” says Vaughan. "There needs to be some level of superficial tracking of migrants, just like your local police department doesn't just focus on murders, robberies and rapes, they have patrols too."

But Ali Noorani, executive director of the National Immigration Forum for Immigrant Rights, argued that the new administration was overzealous. “It is clear that ICE is deporting anyone who is undocumented,” he said. “The big problem is that the Trump administration is wasting really valuable law enforcement resources on many people who are not a threat to public safety, whether they are Irish, Hispanic, Asian or whatever.”

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