Democratic candidate Julián Castro rolls out first detailed 2020 immigration platform. - NBCLatino NBConPolicy
post. “It’s time to end this draconian policy and return to treating immigration as a civil — not a criminal issue.”Castro said the law is antiquated and dates to the 1920s, the era when his grandmother “presented herself at Texas’ Eagle Pass crossing” and the U.S. government was trying to cut off a wave of Mexican migrants like her. The law got new life under the George W. Bush administration, leading to a shift to criminalization of immigration, he said.
He blasted Trump immigration policies and said the next president must start by reversing this administration’s “cruel policies” and ending border wall construction. He also called for improvements to the equipment, infrastructure and staff at the ports of entry, use of alternatives to detention, and elimination of the private detention system.
Castro said the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be split and its enforcement and detention responsibilities reassigned to other agencies. He also said there should be a “thorough” investigation of the roles ICE, Customs and Border Protection and Department of Justice played in the separation of families at the border carried out by the Trump administration.
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