Within one month, Trump has already remade United States immigration policy. Donald Trump’s blizzard of immigration policy changes has spanned the borders, the interior, and deportation plans. They’ve largely prioritized security over humanitarian concerns. The United States government says unauthorized immigrants are national threats requiring a military response. This early on, the impact on public safety and the economy remains to be seen. Yet the number of illegal southern border crossings has continued a downward trend. In the interior, fear and confusion in immigrant communities have taken root, keeping adults home from work and children home from school.
President Trump is also expanding his view of whom he could remove. Beyond talk of targeting “the worst” criminals, he’s stripping legal protections from hundreds of thousands of immigrants previously protected from deportation. In a national ad campaign, the Department of Homeland Security tells unauthorized immigrants to leave or “We will find you, and we will deport you,” said Kristi Noem, the department’s new secretary. The president has proved that the crisis that we experienced over the past four years was completely unnecessary, that the border is controllable, and that our laws are enforceable. President Trump signed 11 executive actions concerning immigration on his first day. Over his first month, more than 100 immigration policy developments have emerged, reports the Immigration Policy tracking project.
Although Some orders were quickly implemented, others may take time. Lawsuits brought by immigrant advocates may also stall plans, such as President Trump’s attempt to withhold birthright citizenship from children of certain immigrants.
A national emergency was declared at the southern border. Claiming the sovereignty of the United States is “under attack” with the entry of criminals and drugs, President Trump declared this emergency on day one. He directed the military to help obtain control of the border and suspend the entry of “aliens involved in an invasion.”
The Trump administration has prepared plans to implement a policy that would allow U.S. immigration officials to quickly expel migrants because they could spread diseases like tuberculosis according to CBS News. These plans would revive a border measure known as Title 42, which the first Trump administration enacted at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 to authorize summary expulsions of migrants. The Biden administration kept that policy in place with record levels of illegal crossings in the U.S. southern border until letting it expire in 2023.
One of those actions has allowed U.S. border officials to quickly deport migrants from the U.S., without granting them an opportunity to request asylum, a right foreigners have under domestic and international refugee law. The authority underpinning that policy, called 212 f permits presidents to ban the entry of foreigners whose arrival is called to be detrimental to the U.S.
The Trump administration’s plan will almost certainly trigger legal challenges. Federal judges found that the COVID-era Title 42 order could not override U.S. asylum law or legal protections Congress created for unaccompanied children, who the Trump administration expelled under the measure.
Within this past month with Trump in office, there have already been some drastic changes to the U.S. immigration policy and law. Nobody knows what is to come for the future of these laws and the future of the immigrants but you can go out and voice your opinion on this matter.
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