When the federal government increased its deportation efforts in the mid-1970s, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, then a priest in the Archdiocese of Newark, recalls the harm it caused by forcing many undocumented immigrants into situations that led to injury, even death.
“It was horrible … they would surround these buildings, go into them, and people would jump out of windows and get hurt. Some people even got killed … it was bad,” DiMarzio, who led the archdiocese’s immigration services at that time, told Crux.
DiMarzio, bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Brooklyn, described his experience in the 1970s to contextualize the mass deportation efforts that President-elect Donald Trump has promised and are a top priority once he is inaugurated on Jan. 20, as well as the House of Representatives recent passage of legislation to detain undocumented immigrants charged with certain crimes.
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The Laken Riley Act, passed by the House last week, focuses on the detainment of migrants who have been arrested for, and/or convicted of burglary, theft, larceny or shoplifting. The bill, which will likely be voted on by the Senate this week, is named after University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, who was killed last year by an undocumented immigrant from Venezuela.
DiMarzio said the legislation, and the mass deportations that are expected to follow, is a step in the wrong direction – “a vigilante approach to a mythical problem that these people are hurting us.”
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