NY
Times - The Trump administration has begun
arresting foreign citizens with expired visas, including spouses of Americans,
at U.S. airports. The arrests, at check-in counters and arrival gates, have
taken place in at least 15 airports in recent weeks, and footage of the
encounters has flooded social media.
The effort appears to be an
expansion of an arrangement between T.S.A. and ICE, which began by targeting
people with deportation orders. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants and
visitors overstay visas each year, including many in a legal gray area who have
active applications to stay in the country and have been issued work permits.
Such individuals were not
prioritized for deportation in the past unless they had committed crimes, and
they were rarely detained while waiting for visa extensions or green cards. But
that has changed under President Trump, whose administration views all visa
overstays as illegal.
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