Advocates worry that rapidly shifting federal and state immigration initiatives will prompt more city police to funnel migrants without criminal records to federal agents.
Jose Alvaro, his wife Ashley and their three children at their home near Lubbock on Tuesday. Jose Alvaro, who is undocumented and has applied for a green card, is in danger of being deported following a traffic stop that led to police calling federal immigration officials.A week ago, 29-year-old Jose Alvaro and his wife Ashley went out to buy some baby formula in Lubbock with their three kids when a police officer pulled them over for a problem with the vehicle’s license plate.
Jose Alvaro had been navigating the long, costly and cumbersome process of applying for a green card. Now he faces deportation proceedings and his family’s future is unclear. ICE did not respond to a request for comment. “Enforcement is now random, everyone is subject to enforcement action,” Chishti said. “You can imagine what fear it instills just as one incident.”
It’s unclear how often Texas police call ICE when they stop an undocumented person. Some large Texas police departments hadfrom ICE to hold a person for deportation — an effort to build trust within immigrant communities so they wouldn’t fear calling police to report crimes.that says local officers can’t be barred from asking a person’s legal status.
The family eventually settled in a house in Texas’ 10th largest city, where roughly one-third of the population is Latino, according toWhen the family went out last week to run their errand in Lubbock, Jose Alvaro missed a turn, Ashley said. When he turned around, they spotted a police officer at a red light. The officer pulled them over “not even 10 seconds later,” she said.
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