Donald Trump was re-elected for his second term, coming back into office Jan. 20, and almost instantly came back with dozens of changes to pre-existing policies, with 10 involving the deportation and immigration of people from other countries.
According to immigration and customs officials, 5,843 people were arrested between Jan. 26-31, creating the highest immigration arrest record since 2013, during the Obama administration. Even though the alleged primary focus is dangerous criminals, there are likely cases where innocent people could become swept along.
Along with this number, there has also been a signing of the Laken Riley Law, which gives authorities more rights to deport undocumented immigrants due to non-violent crimes. The administration is also attempting to deny citizenship to American-born children of undocumented immigrants–a right guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
Finally he ended a policy of limiting arrests in specific places such as schools or churches.
Recently, in an ABC interview, a DEA agent was asked: “And if others get swept up in an operation that’s okay? That’s acceptable?”
“I think that is very likely to happen,” said the DEA agent.
It has already happened. There are reports of ICE using unsigned warrants to conduct searches, reports of U.S. citizens of Mexican descent being followed by police in St. Louis, and reports of a Native American woman in Lawrence, KS being pulled from her home in an ICE sweep and detained until she could prove her citizenship.
This is also all on top of the 10,000 U.S. troops that were dispatched to both the Canadian and Mexican border in order to keep immigrants from coming into the country.
Military planes are also being deployed in order to have undocumented workers sent to a detention center, opening in Guantanamo Bay with an estimated 30,000 beds according to Trump. Military personnel have also been stationed to this detention center in what I can only guess as a way to hold some kind of enforcement over the people they imprison here.
While these policies are generally geared to the people who are actively committing crimes, whom should be punished with extradition, this is also hurting the people who came to this country for a better life, and went through all of the processes to do so, and yet they are persecuted simply for being from another country.
While these policies are not specifically targeting innocent or legal immigrants, this can still backfire on them because of both the stigma of being an immigrant, but also a minor infraction could mean deportation for people whose lives hinge on living in this country where they can actually afford to live and to make a better life for themselves and their families.
This can also lead to further discrimination to these people due to the revocation of the equal opportunity order of 1965, which makes it easier than ever to not hire people based on genetic and geographic positions they are unable to control.
This has not only affected immigrants within the country, but also perspective immigrants whose lives are actively in danger due to their involvement with the U.S. Trump is barring the admission of 1,500 Afghan families after their involvement in helping the U.S. military and troops during the 20-year war. This puts them at risk of death due to them being labeled as traitors by their own people.
Even after thorough promises from the Republican party of their citizenship and extensive background checks, and being cleared by basically any and all US government intelligence agencies, they were still barred and essentially sentenced to death after they helped us with our own agenda in this war.
This country was built by immigrants. Everyone in this country is some sort of descendant of immigrants, and yet this is ignored especially as the constitution is being completely ignored by our president and only upheld barely by the supreme court. quite literally, this country was created by both undocumented, and descendants of undocumented immigrants.
People often forget about this, using peoples nationality as a reason why they should be barred from the country, especially since there is a wrongful thought that they take American jobs. This is completely wrong, they only take the jobs that Americans refuse to take, and they do it because that is the only job that they are able to do because they are able to easily take advantage of these people, and people often forget this simply because of their views of immigration within this country.
We are just over two weeks into Trump’s reelection and if things keep going back how they have been, the next 4 years are going to be a doozy of new policies and new abominable ways that the government can hinder its people.
Please see the alternate view at:
https://ironbladenews.com/8707/opinion/pro-con-pro-trum…migration-policy/
