By Editorial Board
New York Daily News
The first and last mission of the Department of Homeland Security is to keep Americans safe, enforcing the nation’s immigration laws as an essential piece of that puzzle.
All Americans should take alarm at the agency’s sure and steady perversion under President Trump into a force deporting immigrants indiscriminately and, what’s worse, ineffectively when it comes to the hardened criminals who should have no place in this country.
“We have some bad hombres here and we’re going to get them out” promised Trump on the campaign trail.
Yeah, right. One by one by one, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is plucking for ejection upstanding immigrants, pillars of their communities, because at some point a judge or customs agent deemed them deportable — as dictated by Trump’s January executive order to prioritize “removable aliens” for deportation.
Last week it was beloved Indiana restaurateur Roberto Beristain, shipped back to Mexico — a heartbreak to his American wife, a Trump voter who had believed the President meant he would only toss dangers to society.
The week before, it was Drs. Pankaj Satija and Monika Ummat, who had been treating children in Houston for 15 years and got a temporary reprieve, but no guarantees, from orders to leave the U.S.
Thank goodness, Juan Vivares of Colombia is for now back in the Bronx with his U.S. citizen wife and baby, after an asylum glitch left him an open target for ICE.
By the same perversity, ICE is proving itself far more committed to demonizing so-called sanctuary cities like New York as friendly hosts to savage criminals than it is to actually finding a way to purge those criminals effectively.
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