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>ICE have been detaining and deporting legal aliens.

How does a legal alien get deported when there are literally millions of illegal aliens? Mistaken identity?

Do you know how many wrongful deportations there are?

As a legal resident, that's basically why I feel pretty confident in my green card. What the fuck kind of priorities does ICE have if they are messing with people who actually have documents and are here rightfully while there's actual illegals roaming around?

Also, the fact that I live in SoCal, makes me feel pretty safe somehow. :)

Visibility, for one. Legal aliens are likely more confident in their chances to not be deported (and in the past, for rightful reasons), which makes them low hanging fruit for ICE which generally has zero accountability [1].

This can be for reasons like having a conviction within the past few decades or for more nebulous reasons. Even if you successfully fight deportation, you're still dealing with potentially being jailed and taken away from your life for no reason [2].

[1] https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lawful-resident...

[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kansas-professor-who-fa...

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