ICE Has Arrested Dozens of Delivery Drivers at the Gates of a San Diego Military Base

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https://capitalandmain.com/ice-has-arrested-dozens-of-delivery-drivers-at-the-gates-of-a-san-diego-military-base

Assim Alkhawaja decided to start driving for rideshare apps to supplement his income while he worked to get a coffee shop business up and running in Oceanside, California.

Roughly two months later, when Alkhawaja was dropping off two Marines at the nearby military base Camp Pendleton, he ended up being arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and sent to Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego.

While undocumented people have long avoided military bases because of the possibility of deportation, a pilot program launched last year at Camp Pendleton is trapping people with temporary permission to be in the U.S. so that officers can send them to immigration detention facilities and try to convince them to agree to deportation. According to local attorneys, Alkhawaja is among dozens of people detained by ICE at the gates of the U.S. Marine Corps base even though they had temporary permission to be in and work in the U.S.

“It’s a business,” Alkhawaja said. “This is what I found out in the detention center. We are just numbers that generate income to big corporations.”

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Much more at the link. This is outrageous.