Loren Locke quoted in CNBC about ICE raids in Home Depot parking lots
Atlanta-based immigration attorney Loren Locke says that the current sweeps of home improvement store parking lots are doing nothing to solve the country’s complicated immigration situation. Locke noted that while day laborers who gather at home improvement store parking lots skew heavily toward immigrants and disproportionately lack U.S. work authorization, there is no reason to think the population is a good source of dangerous criminal immigrants.
“Rather, they seem more like easy pickings for ICE to hit daily arrest quotas,” Locke said.
She points to the complex web of immigration programs that have evolved over the years, creating an unsustainable system.
“We are in such a mess right now because there are millions of workers in the U.S. who are in this gray immigration status,” Locke said. “They were allowed in, and now we are going back to treating them like they are all criminals who need to be deported immediately.”
Locke pointed out that there are children who were bestowed DACA status and are now grandparents.
“This has not been fixed for their entire adult life,” Locke said.