With the expansion of the scope of expedited deportations, unauthorized immigrants who are anywhere in the United States, and who cannot prove that they have been in the country for more than two years, They will be removed from the territory immediately.
As Univisión explains, before the change, federal immigration officials could only apply the expedited deportations to the undocumented immigrants who are detained less than 100 miles (161 km) from an international border and who have been in the United States for less than two weeks.
US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP).
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Under expedited removal, immigration officials can summarily remove certain aliens without a hearing before an immigration judge. People also do not have the right to a lawyer.
In 2019, during his first administration, trump has already expanded the scope of the expedited deportationbut federal courts blocked it.
What will the raids be like?
The police will be able to enter schools to search for and detain undocumented immigrants. (AP).
Since Tuesday, there is no longer a safe place for migrants. This after the Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Customs (ICE) informed that in their search operations for undocumented The so-called “sensitive areas” will no longer be respected, schools, churches and hospitals, that were established in 2011 and that were maintained during the first Trump administration and in the Administration of Democrat Joe Biden.
In October 2021, Biden expanded the classification of “sensitive areas” to social services offices, funeral homes, school bus stops, natural emergency response points, among others.
For more than a decade, migrants have been beyond the reach of authorities while they studiedthey went to be realized medical checkups and to do other things in hospitals, and when they interacted in religious temples.
For the international analyst Francisco Belaunde Matossianwith this provision the Republican Government is going to cause immigrants to no longer go to schools and hospitals for fear of being detained.
“It is also an indication that Trump is going with everything,” Belaunde told El Comercio.
The AP agency reported on Wednesday that several schools said they were receiving calls from concerned parents because of the rumors that immigration agents They would try to enter educational centers. He added that it is too early to know if large numbers of families are keeping their children at home.
“Criminals will no longer be able to hide in America’s schools and churches to avoid arrest. The Trump Administration Won’t Tie the Hands of Our Brave Law Enforcement and, instead, trust them to use common sense”the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Benjamine Huffman, warned in a statement.
While in an interview with CNN, the designated “border czar”, Tom Homansaid that specific control operations were already being carried out by ICE, and assured that This time the agents have more freedom.
On Monday, during his inaugural speech, trump said that It will end the “catch and release practice.”
Since then, ICE has been ordered to keep the immigrants in custody and not release them, even if it means they will be held longer, a source with knowledge of the ruling told CNN. The Government’s goal is to quickly expel those who are not eligible for asylum.
CNN also reported that on Tuesday the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) told Catholic Charities of San Diego, a nonprofit that provides shelter, food and immigration services to migrants, that it will no longer release foreigners into its care. “Policy has changed at the federal level”was the only thing they explained to their director, Appaswamy “Vino” Pajanor.
Catholic Charities told CNN that it served between 200 and 300 migrants daily.
“We have many refugees here and everyone is in panic. They are very afraid”Pajanor said.
For Belaunde, the measures announced by trump will not greatly deter migrants in his intention to enter USAand believes that now that the application has been removed CPB One To get appointments among asylum seekers, people who are on the border with Mexico, and those who arrive later, will opt for illegal crossings.
“When people are desperate, they have already been seen to resort to illegal crossings, even if it endangers their lives. “They are going to find more obstacles, it is true, but they will try to get into the United States in some way.”Belaunde said.
Who are they looking for?
Asylum seekers wait for news about CBP One appointments at the El Chaparral border port, in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on January 21, 2025. (Photo by Guillermo Arias/AFP).
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Univision explained that the Government’s priorities are similar to those of Trump’s first administration: any immigrant who has not been admitted by officials at a port of entry, those with current deportation orders, and those without immigration status (i.e. without legal permission to be in a country).
On Tuesday, Tom Homan told FoxNews that ICE is on the streets looking for those people who pose a threat to public safety. “Those who are in the country illegally and who have been convicted and arrested for serious crimes are threats to public safety,” he said.
trump has asked the Department of Homeland Security to take all necessary actions so that the ICE can detail which immigrants are priority for deportation and who have final deportation orders that must be executed immediately.
While the attorney general and the departments of State and Homeland Security have been told that criminal prosecution of immigrants for unauthorized entry into the country be prioritized or for continued unauthorized presence in the United States.
According to Trump administration estimates, the Biden administration admitted 1.5 million immigrants into a humanitarian parole program. until their asylum applications are resolved. Now the new Executive has announced that he will review case by case.
Where will the deportees go?
Repatriations of undocumented immigrants in the United States. (AFP).
According to the American Immigration Council (AIC), The number of deportations promised by Trump could cover more than 13 million immigrants without permanent legal status. That raised the cost of a deportation operation to at least $315 billion that the government does not have in its budget, Univision noted. To this must be added the capacity in the courts to process them and the availability of spaces to house them until they are deported.
For the case of the asylum seekersthe president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, He rejected on Tuesday that his nation agreed with the United States to be a “safe third country” to receive them while they wait for a response. During the administration of his predecessor Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Mexican Government did accept this figure, under the program “Stay in Mexico”, which this week was reactivated by Trump.
Regarding undocumented migrants who will be deported, Sheinbaum has reiterated that it does not plan to receive them and said that will insist that the United States send them directly to their countries of origin instead of expelling them to Mexican territory.
At this point, Belaunde maintained that Trump must seek agreements with each country so that they receive their nationals.
The analyst also indicated that this issue can be taken advantage of by regimes such as the Venezuelan Nicolas Maduro to get closer to trump and seek some kind of benefit in return.
“Surely Ripe He is going to try to negotiate with that issue. It can agree to receive its nationals in exchange for, for example, Chevron not being stripped of its license to maintain its operation in Venezuela.. Also ask that no more sanctions be imposed on the country; On the contrary, that these be made more flexible so that more foreign companies are allowed to work in their oil industry,” he said.
Belaunde added that in the case of Mexico, Trump could pressure him to agree to receive deportees in exchange for not imposing tariffs.
