President Trump promises the greatest deportation efforts in US history and in his first days in office has published a dramatic series of executive regulations and other political changes that will redesign the country's immigration system – and the experience of what it means in the We live as an immigrant, especially one who is without papers.
In the United States, there are estimated 13 to 15 million undocumented immigrants, including more than 2.5 million in California.
This includes people who illegally cross the border, people who have covered their visa and people who have requested asylum. It does not include people who have entered the country in various temporary humanitarian programs or who have received temporary protection status, which gives people the right to live and work temporarily in the USA due to disasters or disputes in their home countries.
However, many of the people who used these legal paths could also be exposed to deportation because the Trump administration took the Trump management.
What exactly did the Trump administration do?
Trump has signed several executive commands that are aimed at immigration, which as the Institute for Migration Policy Known: Make one of three things: Limit the legal processes for entry to the USA strongly to strengthen the enforcement efforts to seal the border between the USA and Mexico or to promote aggressive sweeps to make illegal in the USA and to deport. Some of the orders have already been contested in court, and supporters said others could soon be.
About the following orders:
- The President explained A “National Emergency” on the southern border that will enable him to use military troops there.
- He moved according to the birth law of citizenship, which was guaranteed for a long time by the 14th change. The American Civil Liberties Union and more than 20 states, including California, have sued and argue that the order is unconstitutional. In a judge issued in one of these cases on January 23, a federal judge temporarily stopped the command, while the legal challenges took place.
- He suspended that Refugee registration program From January 27th for at least 90 days. Last financial year, the United States relocated more than 100,000 refugees, the highest number in three decades.
Has the new administration still done something that influences immigration?
Yes. Among the important measures:
- Hours after Trump's taking office, his new administration closed the CBP One Mobile app. The Biden administration had expanded the use of CBP One to facilitate the process of applying for asylum. Migrants were able to use the app as soon as they reached the Mexican soil to make appointments at the US authorities at legal entry ports in order to present their offers for asylum and provide biographical information for screening.
- In a associated campaign, the administration gave immigration and customs officials from the enforcement officers Pow to deport quickly Around 1.4 million immigrants, to whom the United States was granted for two years to two years a legal admission to the United States: migrants who came through the CBP one program and received the status of probation when they were heard about theirs Wait asylum scam; And migrants who flee from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti, who were temporarily granted to probation during the search for asylum.
- In a message on January 21, the administration said that it would illegally enable the immigration authorities of the rapid shift of people in the country without a court hearing. The ACLU has sued To stop the plan.
- The Department of Homeland Security has Long -term guidelines canceled Prohibition of immigration agents, arrests in “sensitive” places such as schools, hospitals and churches.
- Benjamine Huffman, deputy secretary of the Ministry of Homeland Protection, has declared a “mass influx” by illegal immigrants on the southern border, which authorized the department to provide state and local law enforcement officers to carry out the immigration authority.
- Ice has started to be leading Announced immigration attacks In many cities, including New York and Chicago. The administration said she aimed at undocumented people with a criminal register. But in a briefing this week, press spokeswoman for the White House, Karoline Leavitt said the administration Displays all undocumented immigrants as criminals because they have violated immigration laws.
So what are the numbers? Have more people have been deported since Trump accepted his office?
The ICE authorities this week have published daily figures for the X -account of the agency, which the number of arrested undocumented immigrants, including 1,179 on January 28 and 969 on January 28. reported this week This ice cream made 3,500 arrests in Trump's first week of office. During the last year of bidding, the arrest number was around 350 a week.
It is too early to evaluate deportation numbers. In contrast to the distance, deportation is a legal procedure that moves through the courts. On January 27, ICE released on X: “In a week, the law enforcement officers removed 7,300 illegal extraterrestrials.”
If this pace continues and ice is removed for a year 7,300 immigrants every week, this would lead to a forced removal of more than 350,000 people. This number would exceed the distances during the bidges. During the Obama government, ICE removal in the 2012 financial year reached a maximum of almost 410,000. Obama's enforcement guidelines aimed at undocumented immigrants with a criminal register and persons who recently exceeded the border without permission, according to the information Institute for Migration PolicyWhile people with established roots in US communities and without a criminal register set a low priority.
What are the current ways for legal immigration?
- People who have a close family member who is a US citizen can still apply. However, if the Trump administration hits travel bans that prevent people from certain countries from entering the United States, this could restrict applications to certain nationalities.
- People who are seen as valuable skills can apply for temporary or permanent employment visa, although in many cases there are years of waiting for such visas. Employers can apply for a petition for temporary work visa for foreigners for certain jobs. Permanent working visa are limited to 140,000 per year, a number that includes immigrants as well as their justified spouses and smaller, unmarried children American Immigration Council.
- Immigrants from countries with low immigration rates to the United States are entitled to a green card lottery.
- Visas are still available for parents who adopt a child from another country.
What's going on with dreamers?
While Trump tried to abolish deployed actions for arrivals in childhood or Daca during his first administration, he has not yet touched the program this time.
The program of the Obama era grants a renewable work permit and a temporary deportation of deportation to certain people who came to the USA as children. An estimated 537,730 people had a Daca protection from September, whereby the vast majority came from Mexico, according to the Institute for Migration Policy.
The legality of the program remains beaten before the federal courts.
What are protective guidelines for sanctuary and why is the Trump administration aimed at you?
There is no clear definition of a sanctuary directive. The term generally applies to guidelines that prevent state and local officials from working with the federal authorities with regard to civilian migration authorities.
California Sanctuary Law 2017, the California value actprohibits state and local law enforcement authorities to examine, question and arrest people only for the purposes of enforcing immigration. The law does not prevent the federal authorities from fulfilling these enforcement tasks in California. And it enables the local police to work with the federal government immigration officials under limited circumstances, even in cases in which immigrants who were convicted of certain violent crimes and offenses.
Under LA Sanctuary City LawCity employees and urban property must not “examine, cite, arrest, hold, transfer or capture” for the purpose of enforcing immigration. An exception to law enforcement authorities that examine serious crimes. La Unified's Sanctuary Policy Prohibits employees to work voluntarily in an immigration authority, including the exchange of information about the immigration status of a student.
An executive regulation that was issued on Trump's first day of the office threatens to reserve federal funds from the jurisdiction of the sanctuary that want to impair the federal law enforcement authorities. A memo from the Ministry of Justice said that state and local civil servants could be examined and persecuted because he had not complied with Trump's approach to enforcing immigration.
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta referred to the statement as “fear tactics” and sworn, “if the vague threats of the Trump government turn into illegal measures”.
If the immigration authorities carry out mass arrest, are the United States seated to capture all immigrants?
That depends on several factors.
On average, almost 40,000 people were included in ice -founding centers in the 2025 financial year. There are probably capacities in the system for additional prisoners, but how much is according to the Eunice Cho, senior employee, not quite clearly a lawyer of the ACLU National prison project.
It is clear that the administration intends to expand the ICE footprint. Trump on Wednesday directed his administration To use the US marine base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with 30,000 beds, for the detention of immigrants with a high priority. The military also allows ice to be recorded in Colorado on the Buckley Space Force Base, so Several news reports.
ICE runs six detention centers in California with a capacity of almost 7,200 prisoners and is urgent to expand. Agency officers are looking for space for 850 to 950 people within two hours for the regional external offices in San Francisco, a development first Reported by Calmatters.
The agency also wants to increase the capacity of detention in Arizona, New Mexico, Washington and Oregon.
Ice facilities, which are largely operated by private prison companies, were recorded by allegations of poor medical care and inhuman treatment. A law of 2019 that would have banned private immigration facilities in California was lifted by the federal courts.
Times Staff Writers Kate Linthicum, Brittny Mejia, Andrea Castillo and Rachel Uranga contributed to this report.