MASS DEPORTATION ORDER STRIKES FEAR AMONG IMMIGRANTS


By Akin Ojumu

Barely a week into the new administration, the Presidential Executive Order authoring mass deportation of undocumented immigrants from the United States is striking fear across immigrant communities in the country. Everyone, everywhere, regardless of immigration status, is terrified of the extent of this order and how far reaching it would go.

There are stories of people getting rounded up from schools, grocery stores, workplaces, and even places of worship. For the undocumented immigrants, nowhere is safe. Like an invading foreign army, agents from the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, DEA, and US Marshalls are all over the immigrant communities looking for people who have been pegged for mass deportation. Many immigrants have stopped going to work or school all together. Theyve gone into hiding to escape the clutches of the immigrant body snatchers.

Consequently, leaders in the immigrant communities are warning their people to be on high alert. They are telling folks who haven’t regularized their stay in the US to watch their backs and be careful where they go. To avoid drawing attention to themselves and risk getting deported, the leaders advise them to behave themselves and not get into trouble.

The Nigeria immigrant community in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan area are already filling the sting. During today’s worship service at Jesus House Baltimore, Pastor Tola Odutola ceased the opportunity to warn his Church members that the potential of them getting deported is real. He told them that this is not a laughing matter, and that things are about to get even more crazy.

Here’s is an excerpt from his remarks:

“Every election has consequences. And I told us. Whatever we are seeing now, you’ve not seen anything yet. And what I’m about to say is very serious. They have made-up their minds to demonize us. You might be laughing now, until they deal with your next cousin, that’s when you’ll know that it’s not a laughing matter. They have made up their minds to demonize anyone that does not look like them. For us, our names alone will give you out. They have made-up their minds to go outside of judicial means to do what they want to do. So, it’s not about you having an attorney now. Before your attorney files for you, you are already back home. That's the way they are doing it. That’s the way they’re doing it. Many planes have gone out taking people to Nicaragua Panama, Mexico. The government is barely one week old.”

Unfortunately, there’s still four more years of this to go for the hapless immigrants. This is their fate in the hands of the man that our Christian friends tell us is the anointed of God chosen to carry out the will of God.

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