Immediately and without trial: the Trump administration tightened the rules for the deportation of immigrants

US authorities are introducing new rules for the deportation of migrants. You can now send them without trial.

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The US authorities are introducing new rules for accelerated deportation of migrants, which will allow people to be expelled from the country, bypassing the migration courts. The process, which previously could take months and years, will now take several days, writes Air force.

According to the new rule, if a person who does not have US citizenship cannot prove to the authorities that he has been continuously in the US for more than two years, he can be immediately deported without a trial.

So far, accelerated deportation could only be applied to migrants detained near the border who had been in the US for less than two weeks.

American human rights activists argue that changing the rules could affect hundreds of thousands of people. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) intends to challenge the innovation in court.

The new rules will take effect immediately after publication in the Federal Register on Tuesday, July 23.

Trump's tough approach

The immigration policy of the Donald Trump administration has been criticized since the early days of his presidency: his decree banning the entry of citizens of a number of Muslim countries who have already received refugee status was challenged in court and suspended.

The policy of separating migrants detained at the US border with Mexico, with their young children, and keeping children behind bars is heavily criticized in Congress and in the press. In June of this year, a hearing was held in the House of Representatives, where the mother of a two-year-old girl from Guatemala, who died as a result of a lung infection received at a migration center, spoke.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been heavily criticized for unsanitary conditions in migrant detention centers, overcrowding, lack of basic bedding and hygiene items such as soap, and especially the practice of forcibly separating young children.

Acting head of the US Department of Homeland Security, Kevin McAlinan, said that the new quick deportation rules would help relieve the overcrowded migrant housing on the southern border. According to him, this is necessary in the context of the ongoing immigration crisis.

According to political observers, the tightening of migration control will be one of the main topics of the election campaign of Donald Trump, who will have to fight for a second term in 2020.

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What has changed in the migration rules?

According to previous standards, only those who were detained no further than 100 miles (160 km) from the Mexican border and were in the US for less than two weeks could be immediately expelled from the country.

Migrants who were detained in other places or lived in the United States for more than two weeks should have had their case examined in a special court and were entitled to a free attorney.

Now, a person can be subject to immediate expulsion. detainee anywhere in the United States, without the right to a lawyer.

The Ministry of Homeland Security says the new rules will allow more effective and massive prosecution of illegal migrants.

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"Show your documents"

About 10,5 million undocumented migrants live in the United States, according to the Pew.

The average illegal immigrant is an adult migrant who entered the country 15 years ago and does not have formal status.

The Department of Homeland Security stipulates that exceptions may be made for people with serious medical conditions or those who have close U.S. citizen relatives or other “substantial ties to the United States.”

The authorities also stress that migrants who meet the requirements for asylum seekers will have the right to talk with an immigration officer, and he will have to consider their case in detail.

According to lawyer Muzaffar Cristi, from the Institute for Migration Policy, many migrants will find it difficult to document how many years they have lived in the US, especially if they are suddenly detained during a raid.

“If you are picked up right on the street or straight from the factory, it will obviously be difficult to immediately prove that you have been here for more than two years - you don’t carry all the documents with you.”

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Who is against the accelerated expulsion of migrants?

Within hours of the announcement of the new rules, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced that it would challenge them in court.

“We will file a lawsuit to immediately stop Trump's efforts to mass expel immigrants,” the ACLU tweeted.

“Immigrants who have lived here for many years will have less rights to a fair trial than traffic violators. This plan is illegal. Dot".

Vanita Gupta, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, told reporters: "The Trump administration is rapidly turning US immigration into an army that will round up people and demand paperwork."

Jackie Stevens, a political science professor at Northwestern University in Illinois, told Reuters that about 1% of people detained by immigration officials and 0,5% of those deported are actually US citizens.

“With accelerated deportation, there will be many more such mistakes,” she believes.

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