President Donald J. Trump has given the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) the green light to review the cases of around 1.5 million illegal immigrants, opening the door to their possible deportations. Under former President Joe Biden, these individuals were granted parole status through programs like Temporary Protected Status (TPS), the CBP One app, and CHNV (Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela) immigration flights.
Shortly after being inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States on Monday, Trump shut down the CBP One app, turning away all the migrants who registered with the app in an attempt to enter the country. The CHNV flights were also stopped. Meanwhile, acting DHS Secretary Benjamine Huffman signed a memo this week that will allow for the rapid removal of recently arrived illegal immigrants if they fail to meet initial standards or claim asylum.
The new memo is part of President Trump’s much broader plan to secure the southern border, which includes increasing deportation numbers and speeding up the process of deportations overall. Hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants entered the U.S. through the CBP One app or the CHNV Parole Program under the Biden-Harris government. Some, like Haitian national Kenol Baptiste, were later arrested for murder and other serious crimes.
Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, announced this week that ICE has already arrested 1,300 illegal immigrants across the country. He told the media that many of those arrested were wanted for serious crimes that include murder and the rape of children. Mass deportations are also a popular policy among Americans, with polling taken prior to Trump’s election victory showing that a majority of Americans support such a policy. […]
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