Houston’s League of United Latin American Residents (LULAC) council and different native organizations are criticizing latest immigration coverage modifications from the Trump administration.
Sergio Lira, president of the Houston-area LULAC council, mentioned Friday that he and different members locally really feel the consequences of the immigration-related govt orders signed by President Donald Trump since he was inaugurated Jan. 20.
“We’re not elected officers. We’re the center and soul of our group,” Lira mentioned. “We dwell in these communities, and we really feel the ache and struggling of immigrants.”
Trump plans to make use of a migrant holding facility on the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to carry 30,000 “high-priority prison aliens unlawfully current in america,” in accordance with a White Home memo launched Wednesday.
Linda Morales, a member of the Labor Council for Latin American Development, an advocacy group for Latino employees and union members, known as the plan a “disgraceful and harmful escalation.”
“Treating individuals in search of refuge as criminals and inserting them within the facility infamous for human-rights abuses just isn’t solely morally reprehensible but in addition a violation of our ideas of justice and dignity,” Morales mentioned.
In accordance with the Trump administration, the “worst prison aliens” can be despatched to Guantanamo Bay. The Trump administration has additionally beforehand mentioned they think about all individuals within the U.S. with out authorized standing to be criminals.
Ivan Sanchez, the president of Houston Millennials, an area skilled community for millennials within the area, mentioned the Trump administration’s language is altering the definition of a prison.
“The Trump administration has created a disaster, a disaster the place he has blurred the strains of an undocumented immigrant and hardcore prison rapists,” Sanchez mentioned.
