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The fight for the White House appears not to be over yet. The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, still does not accept his defeat against Democrat Joe Biden, who, if the official results confirm his election, will be taking office on January 20 of next year.
But the truth is that Trump still makes decisions in the North American country, and an issue on which he can generate changes before leaving power is that of migration. Below we will tell you about the intentions of the current president in this field.
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The lawyer Ángel Leal spoke to the CNN on some migration-related issues that Trump could still influence.
The first one is related to “expedited deportations, which are currently being applied by the Immigration and Customs Control Service, which applies to those people who have been in the country for less than two years, who are in danger of being deported. summarily, rather than being able to appear before an immigration judge. “
The expert also refers to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provides protection to 700,000 immigrants who came to the United States as children, and which was controversial recently because a New York judge rejected the limitations placed on it by the White House.
The court holds that Wolf was not legally serving as Acting Secretary of Homeland Security under the Homeland Security Act.
Federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis ruled last Saturday that President Donald Trump’s Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf broke the law when he approved new rules for the DACA program in July.
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Wolf ruled that no new applications would be accepted and that renewals would be limited to one year instead of two.
These limitations are invalid because “the court holds that Wolf was not legally serving as acting secretary of Homeland Security under the National Security Act” when he issued them, according to the ruling.
Leal said he hopes the Biden administration can give “security to young dreamers who are under the protection of DACA and to those young people who can qualify “under this program.
The plans that Trump had
Assuming his re-election, Trump planned to apply an even tougher immigration policy than his first four years in the White House, with limits on asylum and punishment for “sanctuary” cities, according to Stephen Miller, his top immigration adviser.
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Solving the problems of the immigration system and restoring some degree of sanity to immigration programs require reform of the rules
Last month, in an interview with the television network NBC, Miller pointed out four priorities, considering a possible second term in Trump’s immigration policy: limits on asylum, penalizing cities that protect undocumented immigrants, continuing to cut visas for certain travelers, and new restrictions on visas from job.
“In many cases, solving the problems of the immigration system and restoring some degree of sanity to immigration programs require reform of the rules,” Miller said, noting that these changes do not require congressional approval.
On immigration, “Congress has delegated many powers” to the Executive Branch, he added.
Miller said at the time that Trump’s desire was to expand to the whole world the type of “burden-sharing” agreements signed with Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, by which people seeking asylum in the United States must wait in other countries for the course of your procedures.
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If one were to create secure partnerships with third parties, on other continents and other countries and regions, one would have the ability to share the burden of asylum seekers on a global basis.
“If you created secure partnerships with third parties, on other continents and other countries and regions, you would have the ability to share the burden of asylum seekers on a global basis,” he added.
Under a program of this type, called the Migrant Protection Memorandum (MPP), since the beginning of 2019 The United States sent tens of thousands of men, women, and children, mostly Central Americans, to Mexico, who arrived at the border and presented themselves to the authorities requesting asylum.
As for the cities whose local authorities that refuse to collaborate with the federal authorities on immigration, known as “sanctuaries,” Miller said there would be “a great contrast to really aggressive action.”
Background on migration
In order not to go too far, this Wednesday a federal judge in the United States blocked the expulsions of unaccompanied minor immigrants on the southern border, adjacent to Mexico, a measure that the Trump government had justified due to the covid-19 pandemic.
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The lawsuit against the expulsion was brought in court by the influential civil rights organization American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on behalf of a Guatemalan teenager who fled his country because he was persecuted for his father’s political views. The boy wanted to get to the United States, where his father resides, to meet him again.
Today’s ruling is a critical step in stopping the Trump administration’s unprecedented and illegal attempt to expel children using public health as a pretext.
The Trump administration, which maintains a strong hand against legal and illegal immigration, adopted this policy after the start of the pandemic, relying on an old public health rule regarding the control of epidemics at the border, but according to the plaintiff lawyers It violates the special rights that protect minors.
Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan of the District of Columbia argued that affected minors could suffer “irreparable harm” and also declared that he was not convinced by the arguments presented by the government and indicated that there are enough unused precincts where the children could be housed.
“Today’s ruling is a critical step in stopping the Trump administration’s unprecedented and illegal attempt to expel children using public health as a pretext.”said Lee Gelernt, an attorney for the ACLU.
According to the ACLU, since the beginning of the pandemic and until October, about 13,000 minors could have been expelled to Mexico or to their countries of origin without having had access to request asylum.
Thus, children and adolescents could be one of the populations most affected by Trump’s movements at the immigration level.
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* With information from AFP and Efe
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