Fact checks: Trump’s immigration command commands – What are the effects? | News about Donald Trump
President Donald Trump has launched some of his most controversial immigration promises during the first week of returning to duty, declaring an outstanding state at the southern border of the United States, ordering his administration to re -establish some of his first -term policies and abolish programs that allowed people legally to enter legally into USA.
Some of Trump’s actions came into force immediately – such as the suspension of refugee relocation programs. Others, such as abolition of nationality by birththey are already facing legal challenges or will require additional funding and diplomatic agreements for implementation. Immigration experts say that actions are sending a clear message and that they are already affecting immigrants in the country.
“What is particularly visible in these actions is confusion, fear and uncertainty These policies are already challenging immigrant families and their communities, ”said Thomas J Rachko, Juna, a research manager at the Cisneros Hispanic Leaderish Institute of Georgetown University.
Politifactov Mag-Meter follows progress in the 75 pre-election promises Trump made during the presidential campaign, including several promises of immigration. Here’s an example of what Trump did in his first week of returning to the White House.
Declared ‘invasion’ to distribute the army to the southwestern border
On the first day on duty Trump proclaimed a nationally extraordinary state On the southern border, placing it on the basis of arranging armed forces there to help immigration officials stop immigrants without documents and continue to build border barriers.
“It is necessary for the armed forces to take all the appropriate steps to help the Homeland Security Department in obtaining full operational control of the southern border,” the Trump statement reads.
Following Trump’s command, the Ministry of Defense announced to send 1,500 land staff, helicopters and intelligence analysts “to support increased efforts in discovering and monitoring”.
Trump’s statement also authorizes him to invest the money already allocated to the Ministry of Defense in fulfilling his pre -election promise of “completing the wall”. In addition to the declaration, he would have to wait for his congress to give him money, the less certain thing.
Abolished programs and policies that allowed people legal entry into the United States
Trump says he supports legal immigration but he pausing or ending of signed orders Some programs that allow people legal entry into the US.
CBP one: He finished The CBP One app which allow people to schedule meetings in the official ports of entering to start looking for asylum. (Trump has launched this application during its first term, but was used to schedule a quarterly cargo inspection that entered the US.) The Homeland Security Department has canceled about 30,000 meetings, The Washington Post reported.
Humanitarian conditional discharge: Trump also abolished the Humanitarian Program of Conditional Postency, which allowed the Cubans, the Haitians, the Nicaragovans and the Venezuelanians a legal arrival and work with permission for at least two years. About 530,000 people came in this way during the administration of Joe Biden, according to Homeland Security Data.
Refugee Program: Because it is Refugee relocation programs By formalization in 1980, the US is now being persecuted or the colors of persecution gave refuge, allowing them to legally move to the United States and eventually acquire the right to US citizenship. Trump paused this program on the first day for an indefinite period of time. He said he could not absorb a large number of refugees without threatening the research and safety of Americans.
Refugees are checked before they are allowed to enter the United States and have to undergo a biometric and biographical check and before that they must be interviewed by the US Citizenship and Immigration Service.
With the suspension of the program, homeland security and state secretaries can receive refugees from case to case. Every 90 days, they also have to submit a report to Trump, stating whether the continuation of the refugee program will use the US.
Limited nationality by birth leads to legal challenges
Alignment with his 2024 pre -election promiseTrump has signed an executive regulation limiting nationality by birth-the right of people to become American nationals when born in the United States. According to Trump’s command, people born in the United States are not citizens if their mother in the US is temporary or illegally and if the father is neither a citizen nor a permanent resident.
Multiple states sued Trump over the constitutionality of order. 23. January Federal Judge blocked Trump’s 14 -day order stating that “the damage is current, permanent and significant and that they cannot be corrected at the usual course of litigation.”
Trump’s signing of the first day is “the testing of the external boundaries of the executive power in the immigration sphere,” said Erin Corcoran, Executive Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies University of Notre Dame.
Rebooted program from Trump’s era that requires people to stay in Mexico waiting for court hearing
Trump ordered the Ministry of Homeland Security to re -establish The program of staying in Mexico who sent certain migrants looking for asylum to Mexico to wait for immigration court proceedings in the US. He started this policy in January 2019 Biden ended this during his administration.
The Homeland Security Department has announced that he has re-launched a program on January 21, but experts on immigration have previously said that the use of Mexico should be used to apply that policy.
President Claudia Sheinbaum said on January 22 at a press conference that Mexico had not agreed to accept US asylum seekers. However, she added that the Government would provide migrants with humanitarian aid and ability to return to their homeland.
Extended procedure for fast deportations without legal procedure
In order to start one of its pre-election promises, that it will carry out the biggest deportations in the history of the US, Trump’s Department of Homeland Security has expanded the use of accelerated removal, an accelerated deportation process. Under accelerated removal, immigration agents can deport people without court hearing if these people do not have a credible case of asylum.
According to a new politics, agents can deport people living in the US and who cannot prove that they have been staying in the country for more than two years. Previously used funds used accelerated removal Only people who have been in the US for less than two weeks and who have been detained within 100 miles from the US border.
Trump administration also recalled an order that banned Agents of immigration and customs services for the implementation of deportations in schools, religious facilities and health centers.
Trump also ordered the Ministers of Homeland Security and Finance to designate cartels and other groups as foreign “terrorist” organizations. This command could serve Trump as a foundation for use Foreign enemies lawthe law of 1798, which allows the president to quickly deport the unresolved without legal proceedings if they are from the country in the war with the USA.