The administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trumpplan to impose fines of up to US $ 5,000 (Q38 thousand 500) and prison sentences of up to six months for all undocumented migrants who have entered illegally and do not decide to register for the new registry required by government agencies.
According to the United States National Security Department, all illegal migrants currently in the US territory, including children over 14 yearsthey will have to register their name, their Footprints fingerprints and share the addresses of their residences.
The new measure of Citizenship and Immigration Service of the United States (USCISfor its acronym in English) highlights the efforts of the Republican president for hardening the migratory laws, taking into consideration that this new regulation makes illegal immigrants criminals within the North American country.
The American newspaper, The Wall Street Journalhe explains that before the arrival of this new measure, the undocumented were guilty of committing a “Administrative infraction“And that is why they could be arrested and deported; however, at present, undocumented people will be committing a crime punished with jail for being illegally in the US.
Registration of undocumented
Donald Trump’s new plans are based on the Immigration Law approved in 1940which created an “Immigrant Registry to be able to catch alleged communists“However, the system was stopped in 1960, when the United States government decided that it was” very expensive “for the few benefits.
40 years later, the then republican president, George W. Bush, He created an immigration record again after New York terrorist attacks in September 2001; Although on that occasion, the injured were the people of origin Muslimsince after presenting their footprints, most were deported.
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They had to spend 20 more years for illegal migration policies to hard mass deportations.
According to the border patrol of the United States, one of the branches of the Department of National Security, “ illegal crosses Em the American border have Dysmmunico“During the first weeks of the Trump administration, since in January they were only carried out 29 thousand arrests, compared to 47 thousand December.
In addition to measures related to raids And deportations, President Donald Trump also decided to close the program known as “CPB One“, where the undocumented people had the possibility of schedule an appointment on the US border to be able to request asylum in the North American nation.
Subsequently, despite the decrease in catches on US borders, the president deployed more than 2,500 soldiers In the border states, so that their migratory decrees gave more power to the agents of the immigration and customs control service (ICEfor its acronym in English).