On his third day in office, President Donald Trump signed more executive orders aimed at closing the U.S. southern border to immigration and ramping up deportations — though large-scale deportation raids had yet to be completed as of Wednesday afternoon. were not
According to A fact sheet issued by the White HouseTrump signed an executive order that “suspends the physical entry of aliens engaged in an attack on the United States through the southern border.”
The order directs the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State to “take all necessary action to promptly deter, deport, and remove illegal aliens across the United States’ southern border.”
But the details of how Trump will stop immigrants from trying to cross are unclear.
White House spokeswoman Carolyn Levitt said on Fox News that Trump is “using all of his executive power to secure our nation’s borders.”
“Ports of entry are the places to process and apply to come into this country,” Trump added, indicating that ports of entry would be allowed to remain open for asylum seekers.
However, the CBP One app, which immigrants previously used to submit their information and schedule appointments at Southwest border ports of entry, stopped working for that purpose shortly after Trump took office. was Existing appointments scheduled through the app have been canceled, according to a statement posted Monday on the Customs and Border Protection website.
Late Tuesday, the Trump administration filed a notice published in federal law to extend “expedited removal,” which allows ICE to deport any undocumented immigrant who has been detained for up to two years. have crossed the border into, can deport migrants without due process. The Federal Register logs regulatory changes made by the federal government.
Previously, the Biden administration implemented expedited removal of recent arrivals who did not qualify for asylum upon crossing the southern border. Now, the Trump administration will be able to deport any immigrant who has been in the United States for less than two years, regardless of where they are in the country, and Without giving them a day in immigration court to make their claim.
The new order could speed up Trump’s ability to deport immigrants while bypassing the immigration courts, which currently have a backlog of 3 million cases.
The Trump administration late Monday fired four top officials from the Justice Department’s Executive Office of Immigration Review, which oversees U.S. immigration courts. The four fired officials had decades of experience leading the nation’s immigration courts. The Justice Department employs more than 700 immigration judges, who decide whether immigrants seeking asylum in the United States can remain in the country legally.
As of Wednesday evening, deportations did not appear to have increased sharply. Border Czar Tom Homan said on Fox News Wednesday morning that ICE agents arrested 308 immigrants in the past 24 hours. In September, the most recent month for which ICE data is available, the agency arrested an average of 282 immigrants per day.
A source familiar with the recent arrests said they were part of “routine operations” across the US.
While the arrests targeted immigrants with criminal records, the source could not confirm whether immigrants without criminal records would be arrested as “warrant arrests” because they were found in the same area. were
