Politicians often invoke the prospect of death by deportation in debates about the fate of immigrants and others with precarious status, like the Dreamers. These conversations have been largely theoretical, devoid of names and faces: http://nyer.cm/472g14a pic.twitter.com/arwthxc97Y
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“If I am sent back, I will face more violence, and I could lose my life,” Morales said. He had applied for asylum a month earlier. He was denied. Seven months after Morales’s deportation, he was shot and killed.http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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After Trump’s inauguration, the Department of Homeland Security created an office for the victims of crimes committed by undocumented immigrants, called VOICE—Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement.http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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The office is compiling an online database to track “illegal alien perpetrators of crime.” (Data show that undocumented immigrants actually commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens.)http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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There is, however, no White House initiative to track a more sprawling set of legal violations involving immigrants—violations such as those above, for which the U.S. government is often culpable,http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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Read our full story about the immigrants deported from the United States to death and violence.http://nyer.cm/472g14a
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