The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

This is a favored ICE tool called a stipulated order of removal. The usual pitch of an ICE official waving a stip order in front of an immigrant is that the result, deportation, will be the same as it will be if you contest the case, only you’ll spend less time in ICE detention and get to your home country faster. This waiver of rights was used to deport 160,000 people between 2000 and 2010. Its use exploded after Obama’s election, moving from fewer than 5,000 orders a year in 2004 to more than 40,000 in 2008.