There are thousands of cases of immigrants being picked up who are here legally, who are getting grabbed when appearing to immigration hearings and check-ins.
You have been propagandized by the media with constant SOB story after SOB story.
Yes people have been picked up at immigration hearings. No they are not completely innocent or have legal status.
The media keeps deceptively saying they are being picked up despite "doing all the right things."
What they fail to mention is that most have FINAL ORDERS of deportation, but the government wasn't enforcing them for years and sometimes decades. Instead, the government told them to check in every 6 months, a year, every 3 years, etc. Now the government is simply deciding no longer to give them a pass.
Others have been here for less than 2 years and filed for asylum. These can be expedited removal, which Obama literally used millions of times as well.
We’ve spent hundreds of million of tax payers money on this surge alone, and the BBB increased funding to ICE and BP agents by 75 billion tax payer dollars. pardon me if I make the comparison between what immigrants take in social services, what they pay in taxes through sales tax, gas taxes, TIN, ITIN, borrowed social security numbers from friends or relatives, and compare it to the cost of removing 103 violent criminals from the state.
The vast majority of these illegals are a net negative financially speaking.
Most of them do not make that much money and get exploited as cheap labor. These do have social security and Medicaid taxes automatically taken out, but it's a small amount due to low pay. A huge chunk work off the books.
But they have kids here who all qualify for food stamps, Medicaid, schooling and housing assistance. Not to mention extra language costs for kids who were brought as illegals.
All those things cost FAR MORE than the pittance illegal immigrants contribute in taxes.