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An elementary school teacher inWashington state has been placed on administrative leave after sharing information about how to contactU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to report illegal aliens.

The unnamed educator, who taught atKeene-Riverview Elementary School in Prosser, Washington, shared the information in a Facebook post that could beseen as hostile and offensive,according to The Yakima Herald-Repubic. The post led to angry and concerning phone calls and visits from concerned citizens and parents, the school district said.

The teachers post was in response to the nationwide Day Without Immigrants protest on Thursday.

[ICE]will need to know names, locations (either work place or residence) and any other specific information you can provide, the teacher wrote, adding, If this offended you in anyway, do me a favor and unfriend my American ass!!!

After complaints surfaced, the school district decided to put the teacher on leave.

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, the Prosser School District said in a press release on the matter.

The school districts board of directors worked to distance themselves from the teachers words.

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,a statement read.

The Facebook post was first published on Wednesday, one day before the protests began. The demonstrations were in response to President Donald Trumps hardline position on illegal immigration.

Since becoming president, Trump has signed an executive order moving forward with the construction of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, signed an order to significantly expand the governments priorities regarding deportation of illegal immigrants and ordered the freeze of travel into the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries. The last of those three actionshas beenhalted by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

During the Thursday protests, severalProsser-area workersclosed their businesses in support of the anti-Trump demonstrations, the Herald-Republic reported.

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A new studyfrom the Center for Immigration Studies reportsthat a border wall could save U.S. taxpayers $64 million over the next decade. The author of the report, director of research Steven Camarota, joined Cheryl Casone of Fox Business on Fridayto discuss the costs associated with illegal immigrants.

"We do have a pretty good idea based on a variety of sources of the likely education level of illegal immigrants and there is already an existing body of research that estimates the fiscal impact of illegal immigrants by education or immigrants in general," Camerota began.

"The National Academy of Sciences just did a study last year on how much immigrants pay in taxes and use in services by education," he said. "Once you know the education level of illegal immigrants and then you plug it in and you can come up with an estimate."

Casone asked Camarota to further explainhow the cost of an illegal immigrant accumulates.

"So a big part of it is they just don't pay much in taxes because of their education levels and that's why the costs accumulate," Camarota said. "Because they are creating costs for everything from fire, police protection, they do get some welfare programs, healthcare costs, and then they're not paying that much even when they're paid on the books."

Discussing the opposition to immigration enforcement, Camarota blamed a small number of vocal activists.

"Because in the view of advocates for illegal aliens, if any illegal immigrant has to go home it's a tragedy. The impact on American workers, or as this study points out, the impact on taxpayers, don't concern them. What ICE is doing is trying to save taxpayers money by making illegal immigrants go home," Camarota concluded.

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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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