The federal government currently lacks the resources to fulfill Trump’s pledge of mass deportations in the first months of his presidency, but ICE can and will act quickly to target immigrants for arrests. However, before that begins, President Biden has two months left in office to take decisive action to protect people at risk under Trump’s indiscriminate immigration enforcement plans. |
After initially blocking the Biden administration’s recent move to promote family unity for some U.S. citizens with undocumented spouses in August, a federal judge in Texas issued a final judgment ending the parole process altogether. |
Last week, President-elect Trump announced that he plans to make Tom Homan his “border czar” during his second term in office. Homan served as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from 2017 to 2019.
Homan was instrumental in crafting the Trump administration’s zero tolerance policy that led to thousands of family separations. The policy aimed to deter migration from Central America and Mexico by separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. The legacy of Homan’s family separation policy is long-lasting, and the harm is incalculable.
Through a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the American Immigration Council sought to track the policy’s evolution, implementation, and damage.
Read more: Government Documents on Family Separation |
Trump also plans install immigration hardliner Stephen Miller as Homeland Security Adviser and Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy.
Miller was the architect behind some of Trump’s most anti-immigrant policies during his first term, including the Muslim Ban and the slashing of refugee admissions into the United States.
This blog from the Council recounts how Miller’s anti-immigrant ideology found its way into the first Trump administration.
Read more: Stephen Miller‘s Racially Motivated Animus Toward Immigrants Is Revealed |
