Trump and his white-nationalist allies hold a shocking strategy against immigrants-many Democrats seem to be too eager to join him.
On January 29, 2025, Senator John Fetterman joins other legislators for signing ceremony.
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President Donald Trump’s second term began as his first: with a sequence of immigration tactics and sheep designed to portend the beginning of a new, more punitive era.
Only in the first week of Trump Laid the basis for a new Muslim banHe ordered the military to help deport, reject the reception of refugees, and tried to stop citizenship exceeding the first -garden, brazenly unconstitutional acts. Immigration and customs raids increased almost immediately after Trump returned to the White House, the agency arrested nearly 1200 people across the country in one day. It is reported that the administration plans to conduct major raids in three cities each week. Has it too started flying migrants In jail on the Navy Guantanama Navy.
Trump administration is already going are suing the court to court In several jurisdictions and various subjects about its immigration policy. These legal problems can interfere with the most outrageous abuse, such as an attempt to abolish citizenship, which is carried out, although the modern composition of the federal judicial system, and the Supreme Court makes it difficult to optimistic. However, no waste will interfere with the Trump’s Nativists, led by the White House advisor Stephen Miller, trying to adopt his white nationalist agenda.
And this time the administration can count on the help of some members of the Democratic Party who seem to have decided that they have nothing left to cooperate with Trump’s immigration policy.
After bracking About the ice “pulling dirty bags from the streets”, Mayor Eric Adams said he “sent NYPD to coordinate” with the ice to arrest – a reminder of the restriction of the Law of New York. (In the city also there is couple Asylums who allowed them to allow ice agents to enter their premises without a warrant under certain circumstances.)
At the press conference, the governor of New York Katiel – Note The ice went only after “the people who committed crimes, serious violators, and these are the people we want, we took out of New York.” Ice boasted arrests allegedly members of the Venezuelan gang Traga de Aragua, including a man who wanted the kidnapping and theft, but the agency is only liberated The name and allegations of one of these so -called “criminal foreigners”. And while democratic politicians say made it clear They consider anyone in the country without permission.
Democrats in Congress also seem to strive to make their part to help Trump. Just two days before Trump’s term, Congress passed a law on Laken Riley, a bill that requires mandatory immigration detention for all unprepared, accused of stealing, drunk driving and some violent crimes. A passage of the bill helped Dozens of Democrats In the house and 12 in the SenateIncluding John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, who attended the bill’s signing ceremony and recently elected Senator Arizona Ruben Galega, who detach Politics He directed “Perspective of the Latin American working class from Arizona”. It should not be remembered that less than a year ago, the Republicans made a “two -party border bill” of the Democrats at Freedom Trump because they did not want to defeat Biden during the elections.
Instead of picking up the art of stone capture from their colleagues through the passage, the Democrats seem to think about it this Time, two -party skills will lead to political victories. “If we agree with the delay of” criminal foreigners, “the logic said,” they may give us concessions elsewhere. “This strategy did not work in Trump’s era, but nevertheless the Democrats are preserved.
If the fragmented democratic coalition had a competent leadership, Trump’s model could be instructive.
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Biden tried to highlight more humane immigration policy than his predecessor, at least at the beginning of his term. He realize A 100-day deportation moratorium, graduated from a catastrophic policy “stay in Mexico” and called on Congress to adopt a bill, creating a way to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. Conservatives predictably are suing the court to court Above the moratorium and refused to consider the Bill on Amnesty. The Biden Administration has adopted legal issues in conjunction with the direct allegations of the right that Biden was holding a “border crisis” as a sign of negotiations with the Republicans on Immigration issues rather than fighting them. He spent the rest of his term in the defensive posture, getting rid of the allegations that he “opened” the border while alienating the immigrant rights group who helped him choose him hug Exile headline 42, implemented by Trump at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
When the arrival made a splash, Biden was already underpinned in the corner with his attempts to reflect with his political opponents. And when the heading 42 was finally raised In 2023, DHS Biden began demanding that migrants book meetings to seek asylum via Glitchy App called CBP One.
Biden and his allies called it the creation of “legitimate ways” for asylum seekers has shrunk The ability of migrants to do this by keeping them in border cities where they became easy prey for cartels. Then Trump closed CBP One on his first day ago, without installing the replacement program. This step was correct as an attack on migrants – but it would be impossible without endless Biden’s capitulations. (Biden has created temporary routes for migrants from certain countries, including Venezuela and Haiti to legally live and work in the US for two years; Trump is now being prepared for reverse These measures.)
The combination of national zeal and democratic cooperation is strongly in the future. In the coming weeks and months, we can expect that we will see more ICE raids, both in the form of purposeful arrests and large -scale operations. Seekers and refugees seeking asylum, including those who have been approved for relocation after a long process-will be denied entry. The deportation will continue, as always, but many people arrested in the coming weeks will not be deported immediately. Instead, they will stand in the detention center, and if they are inevitably filled, DHS is undoubtedly almost every day in the four years leading to Trump’s second inauguration. Expanding this A huge observation apparatus“
It is no longer useful to see the readiness of the Democrats to cooperate with the Republicans on Immigration issues as a betrayal of the “resistance” anti-tramp. Instead, we must consider this as a return to a party that always made differences between “good” and “bad” immigrants.
In 1996, Bill Clinton signed the law on illegal immigration reform and liability for immigration, passed a bill with preferred two -party support that this expanded The list of crimes that can cause deportation, making many more people – including permanent residents – stands out. Proponents of the bill justified their punitive policy, stating that they only appealed to the criminals; Legal immigrants would be fine. Just under two decades, Barack Obama described his approach to deportation as focused on “crimes rather than family.” These differences did not help to create an anti -immigration policy. Now the Democrats lines have insisted to draw between good and bad immigrants blurred and at risk of erased. They have no one to blame except themselves.
