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President Donald Trump has promised a radical reset of immigration, and he did not spend time starting. Just a few hours after the oath on January 20, he was sitting in an oval office with a black constant marker and a stack associated with executive skin. By the end of the 1st day, he revived many of the same programs and politicians that had previously pursued for four years during his first administration.
There were 10 orders related to immigration. And they put dozens of changes in politics, which, if implemented, would raise the immigration system and the lives of millions.
The blitz of signing the executive order continues, so fast and sweeping that it is difficult to keep up, and even more so to evaluate its potential in the future. Trump stopped relocating tens of thousands of refugees who have already been checked and approved to move to the United States, including as many as 15,000 Afghans. He graduated from the Humanitarian Parole for Immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua, leaving more than 500,000 already living here in legal suspended state. He started his promised efforts to surround and remove millions of unauthorized immigrants starting with those accused of violent crimes, though less than half of about 8,200 people arrested from January 20 to February 2, according to Government data data are obtained by Propublica and Texas Tribune.
Many measures taken individually may be considered controversial, Andrew Sali said, president of the Institute of non -partisan migration, but as long as experts get the mind around one new initiative, they will find out that there is another. “It is really difficult for external organizations, politicians or the public to focus on any of them at all,” he said.
Meanwhile, some lapel began. Two federal judges rapidly blocked the order seeking to complete the citizenship that called it unconstitutional about a dozen other lawsuits were submitted by groups of civil rights, religious organizations and states. The supporters sued this week to cancel the order announced by the migrants, burst into the country, and this allowed the president to use unusual powers to stop them. The White House did not respond to a comment request.
In order to provide a view of the scale of the changes in, PROPBLICA and Tribune have identified almost three dozen most effective changes in the policy set on the movement of the orders signed on the first day. Most were drawn out of Trump’s previous book. Other unprecedented.
Trump tried before
Some measures in the executive orders revived the Trump’s first administration, including several blocked in court or abolished after the national resume. Others are the expansion of practices conducted by different administrations, both republican and democratic.
It causes special powers of the president that allow Trump, among other things, bypassing Congress to unlock federal financing to build additional border barriers, as well as the deployment of the military.
Temporarily suspend the reception of refugees in the US.
Seeks to stop the practice of releasing some immigrants from the detention while they are waiting for the Immigration Court case.
Most nonmexan immigrants and asylum are ordered in Mexico when their cases go through the US Immigration Court system.
Allows the US government to negotiate with other governments to send immigrants to a place except their countries where they can seek asylum.
DNA testing of some unauthorized immigrants and asylum are required, in particular families.
Expands the focus of immigrant arrests outside those who are a security threat to include anyone illegally in the country.
The calls for the “main mission” of the Investigation Department of the Internal Security Department shall comply with the laws related to illegal immigration, and not with its wide mandate to fight human trafficking, drug smuggling, sexual abuse and many other complex crimes.
Expanding the deportation procedure for people who cannot prove that they are in the country for more than two years.
Involves foreign governments accept deportation of their own citizens.
It creates a hotline for people to tell the government about the immigrants involved in the crimes.
He says legal status, which temporarily protects some immigrants from deportation, must be “restricted in terms”.
He says the administration will provide a work permit in such a way that corresponds to immigration law. Does not give many specifics.
Barry so -called asylum jurisdictions that do not cooperate with immigration execution with federal funds, and instructs the Attorney General to initiate a civil or criminal case.
Provides additional information with the Department of Internal Security for law enforcement or inspection of immigration status and efforts against the person.
The right to state benefits from immigrants living in the country is unlawfully withdrawn.
Seeks to identify countries that are considered a “check and examination”, which is “scarce” to determine whether it is completely or partially suspension of citizens’ entry into the US
Puts resources to withdraw US citizenship for certain offenses.
Suspends or limits the entry of immigrants who are the risk of public health.
The tasks of the defense secretary in the deployment of troops to help ensure the southern border.
He orders the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security for the construction of additional border barriers and coordinate with the governors who wish to provide assistance.
Allows the Attorney General to seize the land adjacent to the border for the construction of barriers or for other purposes.
He manages the US Agency to prefer the persecution and re -entry into the country, which in accordance with the US law is a crime.
Calls on the Internal Security Department “take all relevant measures” to expand premises for the detention of immigrants.
Authorized by state and local law enforcement agencies to fulfill the functions of immigration officers under the supervision of the Department of Internal Security and through the so -called 287 (d) cooperation agreement.
Increases the number of ice and border agents.
The promise to ensure that all migrants seeking to enter the US are “check -up to maximum”.
A policy he had never tried
Some Trump’s measures have never tried before its application to stop the citizenship. Others, when they are implemented, push the president’s powers much further. Orders that claim to invade migrants at the border, or appoint drug cartels and some multinational gangs, as terrorists may have extensive consequences that are not quite clear.
Suspend the entry of immigrants across the southern border until Trump determines that the “invasion” does not conclude. It is not possible to properly examine the criminal history of the people and the risk to the health of the population at the border with a large number of border concerns in recent years.
It states that this is the mission of the US Armed Forces to seal the borders and maintain “sovereignty, territorial integrity and US security”. So far, immigration has not been part of the main mission of the military.
Attempts to stop the citizenship of children who are born to parents or illegally in the United States or under temporary legal status, which Trump just said he wants to do in the first term.
Ends programs that allowed some immigrants and asylum search legally to enter and work in the US temporarily.
It calls a law that requires that all the unwavering register and submit fingerprints to the US government or subject to a criminal fine.
Strives to stop or limit money to non -governmental organizations that provide shelter and services to migrants at the border, as well as legal orientation programs for people in the process of immigration.
The process of appointing drug cartels, the Central American gang MS-13 and the Venezuelan gang begins as foreign terrorist organizations. Also threatens to call a law on foreign enemies in 1798, which, according to experts
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