Washington, DC – Immigrants’ rights groups have said they are digging into their heels and preparing for a long fight as the United States President Donald Trump is maping for a broad immigration crackdown.
During his first week of high -speed fire order, Trump has tried to restore almost every aspect of US immigration.
They restricted guidance where immigration raids could take place, asylum claims on the southern border were canceled and as part of a widespread suspension of the US refugee program, grounded refugees already approved to enter the United States. –
Although widespread arrests are yet to be implemented, immigration rights supporters said Friday that Trump has already caused disaster for asylum seekers in the United States, and already migrants in the country. A cold has been sent between.
Vanessa Cardinas, executive director of the Advocacy Group America Voice, said in a call, “Expensive, cruel and chaos are the words that highlight the wave of extreme policies that the Trump administration has made in efforts to purify immigrants from our country. It continues. ” With reporters.
“The chaos and the fear.”
‘Unusual powers’
After praising a campaign by defrauding immigrants and asylum seekers, Trump took his second oath on Monday, which promised immediate changes to the US immigration system.
His administration has already released more than a dozen executive orders and policy that set hard line policies.
On a call with reporters on Friday, Nana Gupta, the policy director of the American Immigration Council, said that Trump’s actions show the ambitions beyond his desire to arrest immigrants from criminal records.
“What is clear from Trump’s orders is that he is exposing immediate steps to hurt all immigrants: 13 million non -documentaries, halal reservations, political asylum in the United States. Seekers, who are already non -refugee visas in our country, and who are trying to migrate here legally, said.
Many preliminary steps of the administration “demand unprecedented powers,” he said. With further legal action, many have been challenged in court.
Changes in policy have expanded.
Already, for non -documentary immigrants in the United States, Trump plans to rapidly remove and increase exile by increasing cooperation with local law enforcement agencies.
His Department of Homeland Security (DHS) also removed a decade -old policy that banned immigration arrests at “sensitive” locations, including schools, hospitals and churches. Meanwhile, his department has ordered the federal prosecutor to investigate local officials who disrupt immigration enforcement agencies.
On Friday, US media said that Trump’s DHS has also authorized its agents to remove legally enter the country under the former president Joe Biden’s humanitarian parole program. Citizens of four countries – Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela – will be affected.
Meanwhile, those who seek protection on the southern border of the United States face new obstacles under Trump.
For the first time in his post, Trump declared a national emergency on the border and deployed troops there. The President also suspended asylum processing and canceled the CBP One app from the Customs and Border Protection Agency, which is used to schedule asylum appointments.
It is estimated that 270,000 people who used CBP One, canceled their meetings for weeks for their appointments in Mexico, if not months, despite weeks of waiting.
The Trump administration has also laid the foundations for refugees who, before the 90 -day suspension of the United States Refugee Entry Program (USRAP), before the 90 -day suspension, launched on Monday. Has already received approval for security testing and migration.
‘Propaganda’
While Trump made similar efforts during his first term since 2017, Gupta of the American Immigration Council said that in the first days of Trump’s second term, “how even more important and more important to present the American immigration system. The understanding map has been revealed.
Gupta added that Trump and his advisers “clearly understand where they are open” in the current US law to examine the limits of the matter.
Many community supporters say they are braking for a “mass deportation” campaign in a media interview in a media interview in the coming days.
A raid in the New Jersey city of Nevarak has already been drawn across the country. On Friday, Nevarak Mayor Ras Baraka announced that agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had enrolled in a local business a day ago.
He accused him of detaining both non -documents and US citizens, calling the incident a “controversial act” in the “simple violation of the US Constitution”.
“I was surprised, upset, angry that here in this state, in this country,” said Baraka.
It seems that the raid is a departure from the Biden administration’s policies, which placed a maratrium on immigration implementation in place of work.
In its last official update on Thursday, the ICE said it made 538 arrests during the first four days of the Trump administration. Under the Biden administration, the agency’s average average was 310 310 arrests in 2024.
White House spokesman Caroline Levit also Posted On social media that “exile flights have begun”, showing pictures showing a line of people aboard a military plane.
However, critics noted that exile flights under the Biden administration occur weekly, the only change under Trump is the use of military aircraft.
A Reply On the social media platform X, Aaron Rachelon Melink, a senior fellow of the American Immigration Council, called the post “sheer propaganda”. Another immigration activist, Thomas Kart Wright, called it a “extraordinary theater”.
A long fight
Although lawyers continue to monitor how the initial orders of Trump will be executed, the war against their legal status in the courts has begun.
The preliminary victory took place on Thursday, when a federal judge understood Trump’s order to abolish the citizenship of the birthright, and stopped his implementation.
Legal challenges have also been filed against the move to increase Trump’s rapid removal and increase the cancellation of appointments made by the CBP One app.
Talking to reporters on Friday, Karen Tomlin, director of the Justice Action Center, predicted more challenges in the coming days.
He explained that his ruling on Trump’s deployment on the southern border, changing policy at “sensitive” places, and his order to eliminate the so -called “humanitarian parole” programs could face legal complaints.
But Tomalin added that there is no silver pill to improve US views on immigration.
Tomlin said, “The most important point to remember everyone is: the courts are an important vehicle to prevent damage, but we really need to listen to those who do the damage if we do our job Going to change. “
Talking to Al Jazeera to Al Jazeera, Vice President of the International Refugee Delivery Project (IRAP), Vice President of US legal programs, also identified Trump’s flaws in the suspension of refugee program USRAP. –
The order introduces national security concerns as part of its rationality to cancel refugee flights, yet the people involved in the program often have years examined.
“It also depends on the assumption that communities are not ready or ready to welcome the refugees in the United States,” he said. “I don’t think it is in accordance with the facts on earth.”
He added that the IRAP is preparing for legalization to challenge the suspension.
