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A Washington state elementary school teacher has reportedly been placed on leave for a Facebook post urging people to report illegal aliens to Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Thursdays nationwide A Day Without Immigrants strike.

The Prosser School District, which did not identify the teacher, said it is investigating a post that generated a number of angry and concerning emails, phone calls and visits from parents and community members.

Earlier today, the District learned that a teacher at Keene-Riverview Elementary School had posted on her personal Facebook page a message that appears related to undocumented immigrants, the district said in a press release Friday. The post may be considered hostile and/or offensive on the basis of national origin.

Due to possible safety and security concerns, as well as concern for disruption of the school environment, this teacher has been placed on administrative leave pending investigation of this incident by the District, it said. Please be assured that the views expressed by this teacher on her personal Facebook page do not in any way reflect the views, beliefs or values of the Prosser School District or its administration or Board of Directors.

The offending Facebook message, posted Wednesday, voiced support for boycotting the Day Without Immigrants protests and provided information on how to contact the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency to report illegal aliens, the Yakima Herald-Republic reportedSaturday.

They will need to know names, locations (either work place or residence) and any other specific information you can provide, the post reportedly read. If this offended you in anyway do me a favor and unfriend my American ass!!!

Thousands of immigrants, legal and illegal, stayed home from work and school on Thursday to protest President Trumps immigration policies. Hundreds of students in the Yakima Valley stayed home and a number of businesses closed Thursday in support of the protests, the Herald-Republic reported.

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The 680 undocumented immigrants recently captured by ICE represent 0.7 percent of all those targeted for deportation, as nearly 940,000 others remain undetained. Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has approved hiring more ICE agents.

Government officials and President Donald Trump are proposing hiring more border enforcement agents and changing the deportation laws to deal with nearly 1 million undocumented immigrants given final orders of removal.

In a written response to questions from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the current director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Thomas Homan, said that ICE has only detained 11,006 undocumented immigrants since May 2016, roughly 1 percent of the million immigrants who have been ordered for deportation.

As of May 21, 2016, there were 950,062 aliens with final orders of removal on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) national docket. Of those aliens, 939,056 were on ICE's non-detained docket and 11,006 were on ICE's detained docket, Homan told the Judiciary Committee, according to the Washington Examiner.

On Thursday, Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (D-California) said that Homan told her and Democratic colleagues that ICE plans to significantly increase immigration arrests under Trumps executive order.

"They said that we can and should expect many more arrests and removals this year, Sanchez told the Los Angeles Times, adding that under the proposed policies, essentially anybody who has an immigration status violation is a priority for deportation.

The latest survey from the Pew Research Center Hispanic Trends found over 11 million undocumented immigrants were living in the US in 2014.

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In a statement from last week, Secretary John Kelly of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed that 680 illegals had been detained by ICE officers in a series of raids since the executive order was signed. Kelly said the enforcement operations were regular and that they were only targeting criminals.

Of those arrested, approximately 75 percent were criminal aliens, convicted of crimes including, but not limited to, homicide, aggravated sexual abuse, sexual assault of a minor, lewd and lascivious acts with a child, indecent liberties with a minor, drug trafficking, battery, assault, DUI and weapons charges, Kelly said.

On Sunday, Kelly signed a pair of memos approving the hiring of thousands of new enforcement agents and expanding the expedited removal proceedings to cover thousands more undocumented immigrants.

In his first memo, Kelly approves the hiring of 10,000 new ICE officers and 5,000 new staff for the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in response to Trumps January 25 executive order, which calls for at least 5,000 new hires.

The surge of immigration at the southern border has overwhelmed federal agencies and resources and has created a significant national security vulnerability to the United States, wrote Kelly, citing the increase in apprehensions along that border between 2015 and 2016 that significantly strained their resources.

There are currently 20,000 ICE employees in total, according to the agencys website.

Kellys second memo would allow ICE and CBP to immediately deport individuals who have been detained. Under current laws, expedited removal is only used for those caught by border patrol agents within 100 miles of the border, and only applies to those who have been in the country for up to two weeks. Kellys memos would expand those rules to individuals who have been in the country for up to two years, no matter where they are in the US.

The pair of memos do not include the proposal to mobilize the National Guard for immigration enforcement that was included in a draft leaked to reporters on Friday. The current memos are still considered draft documents, and need to be reviewed by the White House Counsels Office before they will go into effect.

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In this Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2017, file photo, Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos is locked in a van that is stopped in the street by protesters outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Phoenix. Advocacy groups say that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are rounding up people in large numbers around the country as part of stepped-up enforcement under President Donald Trump. Rob SchumacherAP

(WASHINGTON) The Homeland Security Department has drafted sweeping new guidelines aimed at aggressively detaining and deporting immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, according to a pair of memoranda signed by DHS Secretary John Kelly.

The memos dated Friday seek to implement President Donald Trump's broad directive to crack down on illegal immigration. Kelly outlines plans to hire thousands of additional enforcement agents, expand on the priority list for immigrants marked for immediate removal and enlist local law enforcement to help make arrests, according to a person briefed on the documents, who confirmed the details to the Associated Press.

"The surge of illegal immigration at the southern border has overwhelmed federal agencies and resources and has created a significant national security vulnerability to the United States," Kelly wrote.

He said apprehensions on the southern U.S. border had seen an additional surge of 10,000 to 15,000 per month from 2015 to 2016.

The memos leave in place one directive from the Obama administration, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows young people who were brought into the country illegally as children to stay and obtain work permits. The program has protected about 750,000 immigrants since its inception in 2012. Trump has previously indicated his desire to end the program, but at his press conference last week indicated that he would "show great heart" toward the program.

The memos were reported first by The Washington Post and other news organizations. A U.S. official familiar with the documents did not dispute the accuracy of the memos signed by Kelly, which were originally scheduled for release Friday before they were postponed for White House review.

A White House official said the White House has raised objections with the documents and is working with DHS to finalize the policy. The official was not authorized to discuss the process publicly and insisted on anonymity.

Under the draft guidelines, Kelly seeks to "expeditiously hire" 10,000 more enforcement agents and 5,000 Border Patrol officers.

Seeking to fulfill Trump's campaign promise to build a wall along the Mexican border, Kelly also calls on Customs and Border Protection to "immediately begin planning, design, construction and maintenance of a wall, including the attendant lighting, technology (including sensors), as well as patrol and access roads." He describes the wall as necessary to deter illegal immigration and calls it a "critical component" of Trump's overall border security strategy.

He says the department will also prioritize for more immediate removal those who have been convicted of a crime; charged with a crime; committed fraud in connection with a matter before a government agency; abused any program related to public benefits; or have not complied with orders to leave the country.

Joanne Lin, senior legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, criticized the proposed guidelines as a Trump style of immigration enforcement in which "due process, human decency and common sense are treated as inconvenient obstacles on the path to mass deportation."

"The Trump administration is intent on inflicting cruelty on millions of immigrant families across the country," she said in a statement.

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Bill O'Reilly and former Obama administration official Austan Goolsbee clashed tonight while debating President Donald Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration.

O'Reillynoted that Democrats quickly came to the defense ofDaniel Ramirez Medina, an illegal immigrant and so-called "Dreamer" who was arrested in a Seattle suburb earlier this month during anImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid.

Ramirezreportedly admitted to immigration officials that he has gang ties, although his attorneys later denied those allegations.

Lawyers and supporters of Ramirez have said the 23-year-old's arrest is unconstitutional and he should be immediately released.

O'Reilly repeatedly askedGoolsbeeif Ramirez should be released before authorities can get to the bottom of his alleged gang affiliation.

"You hold him, right? And then you find out what the story is, right?" O'Reilly pressed.

Goolsbee said he can't answer that because doesn't have the details, which caused O'Reilly to cut in.

"This is what's wrong with your party!" O'Reilly said. "You're a Democrat. Democrats don't want any deportations. They want total non-enforcement."

Watch the fiery exchange above, and let us know what you think in the comments.

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LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 18: Protesters participate in the Immigrants Make America Great March to protest actions being taken by the Trump administration on February 18, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Protesters are calling for an end to stepped up ICE raids and deportations, and that health care be provided for documented and undocumented people. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 700004520 ORIG FILE ID: 642760812(Photo: David McNew, Getty Images)

Immigration and border agents will be directed to more aggressively go after immigrants in the country illegally and their families, according to a leaked pair of memos from the Department of Homeland Security.

The memos, first reported by The Washington Post and other media, offer a list of sweeping new guidelines to law enforcement agencies that would implement many of the executive orders on immigration enforcement recently signed by President Trump.

The guidelines, signed by DHS Secretary John Kelly, include hiring thousands of additional enforcement agents and increasing the number of immigration judges, expanding the pool of immigrants prioritized for removal, enlisting local law enforcement to help with arrests and speeding up deportation hearings. They also propose prosecuting parents and family members in the U.S. who pay smugglers to bring over unaccompanied minors.

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The memos were a draft order and still being reviewed by the White House, according to the Associated Press.

The guidelines would put into play legal tools available to presidents for years but largely overlooked by past administrations, said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a non-profit research institute that promotes stricter control on immigration.

Expediting the removal of immigrants who have been in the country illegally for less than two years, for example, has been a legal remedy since 1996, but underused by past administrations, she said. She called the guidelines, if implemented, a step in the right direction.

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What this administration is doing is using the tools available in the law to a greater extent to address problems that have been neglected the past eight years by the Obama administration, Vaughan said. Theyre changing the message to people who are thinking about coming here illegally.

Notably missing from the guidelines is any change to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which allows young people brought to the USA illegally as children to stay and obtain work permits. Trump harshly criticized the program on the campaign trail last year but said at a recent press conference that he would show great heart toward the program. The program, initiated by the Obama administration in 2012, has protected about 750,000 immigrants.

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Mark Silverman,senior staff attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, a pro-immigrant rights group based in San Francisco, said the guidelines outlined in the memo were very disturbing and draconian, particularly the section about prosecuting parents trying to bring their children to the USA.Recruiting local law enforcementto help persecute illegal immigrants would also result in widespread violations of civil liberties, he said.

Essentially, this memo is implementing the inhumane and nonsensical scapegoating of immigrants, especially Latinos, for problems in this country which they did not create, Silverman said.

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The guidelines also call for the border wall to begin construction, instructing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to immediately begin planning, design, construction and maintenance of a wall, including the attendant lighting, technology (including sensors), as well as patrol and access roads, although funding for the walls construction and maintenance still needs approval by Congress.

In a statement, Joanne Lin, American Civil Liberties Union senior legislative council, called the enforcement plans a breach of due process, human decency and common sense and vowed to fight them.

The Trump administration is intent on inflicting cruelty on millions of immigrant families across the country, she said.

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