A North Carolina man hung up a sign calling President Donald Trump to conduct deportations in his neighborhood. He did so next to a store owned by a Latino, a demographic targeted by immigration enforcement during the administration.
“BUILD THE WALL/DEPORT THEM ALL/TRUMP START WITH MY NEIGHBORHOOD FIRST” reads the sign hung up by Douglas Dietrich at his home in Grifton, Pitt County, NBC News reported.
A North Carolina man admits his sign encouraging President Trump to deport immigrants is targeted at his neighbor, a legal U.S. citizen. WITN’s Chris Cooke reports. https://t.co/mPIciXwPgS
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The outlet noted that Dietrich lives next to a repair business owned by Enrique Garfias. He told WITN, which reported the news first, that he is a legal citizen and found the sign offensive, claiming it was targeted at him.
Garfias went on to say that Dietrich has problems “not just with Hispanic people” but targets the demographic more because “he thinks he can do it to us.” “He thinks he’s right. People out there are gonna see what he’s doing is not right,” Garfias added.
Dietrich, on his end, told the outlet that he was upset with Garfias’ business because it was allowed to operate in a residential neighborhood. He added that he wanted to operate a business in the same location but wasn’t allowed to.
The Trump administration is deporting nearly 1,500 people per day, a rate that would surpass 400,000 removals by the end of Trump’s first year in office, according to an analysis published by The New York Times this week.
That figure would be well above the 271,000 people deported in the previous year but below the administration’s stated goal of one million deportations per year. The 1,500 per day rate is a pace not seen since the Obama administration.
The report details that ICE has deported at least 180,000 people so far in the Trump administration, though the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) places the number at 332,000, a figure that includes individuals turned away at U.S. borders by Customs and Border Protection.
The agency has been expanding operations since receiving new funding, including $76 billion allocated under a domestic policy bill signed in July, which will allow for thousands of new agents, additional detention space, and increased chartered and military flights for removals.
The immigrant detention system has expanded significantly in the last few months as well. ICE now holds about 60,000 people, with more than 50 new detention centers added since Trump took office, including private facilities, federal prisons, and temporary structures.
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