Migrants

As the roundup of illegal migrants gets underway, some interesting situations pop into the news. The press is patiently waiting for some innocent mother with her children to be arrested but mean while other convicted criminals are collected by ICE. In Boston, as in other sanctuary cities, known criminals are in local jails but ICE is not notified even when these criminals are on the ICE detention list. Later these people are released into the community and then ICE picks them up. Trump has recently changed the law which allowed criminals safety in churches and other locations which makes them subject to the same rules regarding US citizens who are criminals. A parent who is a US citizen but a criminal can be arrested any place and sent to jail while their family remains without a parent. This would not likely spawn stories about removing parents from their families. The differences in the way illegal migrants are handled compared to the way US citizens are handled is causing some consternation among the public.