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LATEST ANALYSIS
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GOP Budget Reconciliation Plan — Cutting Essential Programs to Supercharge Deportations [[link removed]]
The Senate budget deal will reportedly include at least an unprecedented $175 billion for immigration and border enforcement, nearly six times the latest annual budget of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) combined. While exact details are yet to be set, in order to pay for this staggering amount, the plan calls for sweeping cuts to essential programs, including potentially Medicaid, Social Security, food benefits, and more.
What We Know About Trump’s Efforts to Roll Back TPS For Venezuelans and CHNV Parole [[link removed]]
From his first day in office, President Trump made clear that part of his immigration agenda was to strip legal protections from people who currently qualify for them, rendering them deportable as “illegal immigrants.” In his first weeks, the administration has made a few opening moves in that effort, while leaving the door open to future action. The result has been confusion and dread, as communities (and attorneys) try to figure out what the current policies are and when the other shoe will drop.
The Impact of Family Separation on Children [[link removed]]
Yeisvi was no older than 11 years old when she was separated from her mother, Vilma Carrillo, at the Arizona border. Ms. Carrillo was detained in Arizona and moved to a detention center in Georgia while her daughter was placed in foster care. Yeisvi was a U.S. citizen by birth and her mother was an asylum-seeker from Guatemala. Ms. Carrillo fled to the U.S. from her abusive husband. She was forcibly separated from her daughter at the United States-Mexico border, which lasted for more than 200 days as she appealed her deportation order. Because Yeisvi was a U.S. citizen, she could not stay with her mother, who was detained in an immigrant detention center.
FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW
Expedited removal is a process by which low-level immigration officers can summarily remove certain noncitizens from the United States without a hearing before an immigration judge. Undocumented immigrants placed in expedited removal proceedings are entitled to access the asylum system if they express fear of persecution, torture, or of returning to their home country.
Created in 1996 as part of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act, the expedited removal statute applies to noncitizens who arrive at a port of entry and to some noncitizens who enter without having been admitted or paroled (those who “enter without inspection”) and who have not been continuously present in the United States for at least two years.
Read more: Fact Sheet on Expedited Removal [[link removed]]
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“It is fair to say the Trump administration’s primary message to federal law enforcement is they should spend less time going after drug traffickers, pedophiles and terrorists and spend more time going after migrants.”
– Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council [[link removed]]
FURTHER READING
Associated Press: FEMA Funding to New York City to Assist Migrants Is Misrepresented [[link removed]]
El País: Sheriffs regain power to meet Trump’s goal of mass deportations [[link removed]]
Fast Company: Trump’s immigration plans follow a familiar playbook: exclusion, incarceration, and mass deportation [[link removed]]
Texas Tribune: In Odessa, multiple efforts are underway to help immigrants stay and work [[link removed].]
Fresno Bee: Debunking myths perpetuated by Donald Trump about undocumented immigrants [[link removed]]
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