Trump’s 17 immigration fixes that are cutting illegal crossings
by Paul Bedard August 21, 2019 01:06 PM
From gub’s posted article:
Below are the immigration efforts unveiled this year by the administration, pulled from a new fact sheet:
Flores change to stop catch-and-release by holding immigrant families in federal facilities while their case is processed instead of releasing them after 20 days and hoping they return to immigration courts.
Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a deal in which migrants seeking admission to the U.S. from Mexico may be required to wait in Mexico. Since it was signed in May, Southwest border arrests have decreased 43%.
Border Wall. 52 miles new wall built in heavily trafficked areas along the Southern border with 334 miles of border wall promised to be built by the end of 2020.
5,000 troops have been sent to the border.
The Pentagon has redirected $2.5 billion from the military construction budget to help build 100 miles of the wall along the Southern border.
The U.S. and Guatemala agreed to enter an Asylum Cooperative Agreement to allow asylum seekers to be transported to Guatemala to seek asylum there first.
$4.6 billion in emergency aid sought by the administration was approved. The administration said it provided “minimal funding for the humanitarian mission at the border, providing supplies for the hundreds of thousands of aliens coming into the country each month.”
The “asylum rule” made migrants ineligible for asylum if they passed through another country on their way to the U.S. without claiming asylum there. Only 10 to 15 percent are ever granted asylum.
The public charge rule requires immigrants to “be self-sufficient and able to support themselves without specified government welfare benefits.”
Drug enforcement was expanded. In June, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol seized a vessel that contained 33 thousand pounds of cocaine, one of the largest cocaine drug seizures in history.
The administration moved to challenge activist judicial decisions.
Law enforcement has been beefed up, especially at ICE where enforcement and removal operations have been expanded.
More Border Patrol agents have been assigned to the border.
More asylum officers, 500 more by the end of the year, have been created.
Sponsors of migrants are now facing enforcement of their legal responsibilities.
Justice issued a rule “more clearly defining the category of ‘social groups’ as a claim for credible fear in asylum cases.”
The minimum investment required in the EB-5 Visa Immigrant Investor Program was increased.
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*17* Immigration fixes.
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