Trump's Measures To Deport

Trump's Measures To Deport
Trump's Measures To Deport

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The worst omens of the 11 million undocumented immigrants and their families appear to be coming true with new measures announced by the President Donald Trump administration, which aim to increase deportations of undocumented immigrants regardless of whether they have committed a crime or not..

The measures contained in documents released Tuesday implement the president's campaign promise to more aggressively pursue undocumented immigrants and more vigorously enforce immigration laws, compared to the policy of his predecessor, Barack Obama, to focus on deportations of immigrants who have committed serious crimes.

“The message from the White House and DHS [the acronym in English for the Department of Homeland Security] is that people who are in this country and pose a threat to public safety or have committed a crime will be the first to leave and we We will aggressively ensure that this happens,”White House spokesman Sean Spicer said after the measures were released.

When asked by the press, Spicer denied that the objective is to launch a mass deportation of all undocumented immigrants, as the president had hinted during the campaign, and stressed that they are simply removing restrictions that Obama had imposed on enforcement agencies. of the law.

The documents released by the Department of Homeland Security make it clear that there are no longer any exceptions to the application of the law and that all non-papal, even if they do not have a criminal record, can be deported.

"Under this executive order, ICE will not neglect classes or categories of deportable foreigners," reads one of the texts. "Anyone currently violating immigration law may be subject to immigration arrest, detention, and, if they have a final deportation order, they will be transferred outside of the United States."

That includes people found guilty of fraud in any proceeding involving a government agency or who have abused social service programs.

"This administration appears to have hit the gas pedal to the bottom," Heidi Altman, director of policy for the National Center for National Immigration, told The New York Times.

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