WASHINGTON — Immigration advocates and civil rights groups are preparing to embrace President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promises and crack down on immigration, from reviving the controversial policies of his first term to instituting mass deportations.
Trump has promised to end the parole programs that have allowed immigrants to work and live in the country legally as soon as he takes office. In these humanitarian probation programs are from 2021 there were more than 1 million Immigrants with short-lived protection.
What is likely to follow immediately is the reinstatement of its previous immigration policies, such as the ban on allowing people from predominantly Muslim countries to enter the United States, and the reinstatement of the “Remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum seekers to stay there during their stay to stay in Mexico awaiting their cases.
Immigration groups are preparing for these guidelines and those to be followed before Inauguration Day.
Sirine Shebaya, executive director of the National Immigration Project, laid out a sobering reality.
“We recognize that many are fearful about what the next four years will bring,” she said in a statement. “Although we cannot prevent all harm from occurring, we say to all those who suffer harm: We are here to do everything in our power to support and protect each other.”
The American Civil Liberties Union, which has been at the forefront of challenging some of Trump’s toughest immigration policies during his first term, said on social media that it was prepared for legal challenges that would begin on Trump’s first day in office .
Greisa Martínez Rosas, executive director of the largest immigrant youth organization United We Dream, said in a statement that with Trump’s promise to plan mass deportations, they had “clear eyes on the fight ahead.”
“We will harness and expand our power to new heights by building the largest pro-immigrant movement this country has ever seen, to fight against white nationalism and implement a vision for the future that embraces our values of a pluralistic one “Democracy in which everyone lives can live and thrive without fear,” said Martínez Rosas.
Deportations
Immediate deportations could include people already in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. That was 37,395 in September.
This could include expanding expedited deportations, meaning that a person without eternal legal status who has been in the country for two years without receiving a court hearing or any authorization can be deported without a hearing before a judge.
This type of distance is constrained to 100 miles from a border. However, during the first Trump administration, this zone was expanded to the rest of the country. A second Trump administration could do it again.
The Migration Policy Institute, an immigration think tank, estimated that “the expansion of expedited deportation into the U.S. interior could affect up to 288,000 people.”
Tom Homan, who served as acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement from 2017 to 2018, recently told CBS News that mass deportations were being targeted.
“It will not be a mass search of neighborhoods,” he said. “There will be targeted arrests. We will know who we will arrest and where we are most likely to find them based on numerous investigations.”
financing
The costs of mass deportations are also under discussion.
Trump’s central campaign promise to carry out mass deportations would be a costly undertaking requiring congressional approval – something that might be easier if the modern president were given control of both chambers.
The American Immigration Council makes a conservative estimate that found that it would cost $968 billion to deport the approximately 13 million immigrants from the country over the next ten years without authorization.
According to the analysis, it would cost the government $89.3 billion in arrests, $167.8 billion in large-scale detention, $34 billion in legal processing and $24 billion in deportations.
These funds would have to be approved by Congress.
It was unclear Thursday morning whether Trump would be comfortable with a divided Congress or unified GOP control. Republicans have flipped the Senate, and although there are still too many House races left to gain control of the chamber, the GOP was inching closer to a narrow majority.
Economic impact
Economically Experts warn about the consequences of laying off millions of workers.
Jeremy Robbins, executive director of the American Immigration Council, sought to curb the economic impact of mass deportations.
“Should a president choose to pursue mass deportation, it would impose extraordinary costs on the government while simultaneously devastating the economy,” Robbins said in a statement Wednesday.
“It is critical that policymakers and the American public understand what this would mean: tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, the destruction of already struggling industries, the incarceration of millions of people and the disruption of thousands of families, leading to widespread terror and chaos communities across the country.”
According to the American Immigration Council, households headed by undocumented immigrants paid a total of $75.6 billion in taxes in 2022. It is estimated that approximately 4.8% of the U.S. workforce is made up of illegal immigrants. according to the Pew Research Center.
Last updated on November 7, 2024 at 2:19 p.m
