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Trump’s Immigration-Related Executive Orders
Trump is creating fear and confusion with his “mass deportation” that is picking up people who have committed no crime.
Banning access to protection at the U.S.-Mexico border is plainly, illegal. To justify doing so, executive orders adopt a wild legal theory that asylum seekers and economic migrants meet the definition of an “invasion” under Article IV of the Constitution. Women and children are now “invaders.”
Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act states clearly that anyone physically present in the United States has the right to apply for asylum if they fear for their life or freedom due to race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. This right, added to U.S. law in 1980, applies regardless of how the non-citizen entered the United States.
Despite this, as of January 20 there is virtually no way to access the U.S. asylum system at the U.S.-Mexico border.
There are 3 Executive Orders affecting immigration:
1) "PROTECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AGAINST INVASION"
- Threatens to block federal funding from “sanctuary cities”
- Includes sensitive areas like schools, hospitals and churches
2) "SECURING OUR BORDERS"
- Canceled the Customs & Border Protection (CBP) “One Smartphone” application to register for an appointment for asylum
- In 2 years 936,500 appointments were made legally – all of the current appointments have been cancelled!
- Restarts “Remain in Mexico”
- “Safe third country” agreements to have other governments accept removals who would then have to seek asylum in the receiving country’s system
- Shuts down presidential humanitarian parole authority to allow up to a combined 30,000 citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the United States giving more than 531,690 citizens of those countries a two-year parole status since late 2022
3) "PROTECTING THE MEANING AND VALUE OF AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP"
- Eliminates “birthright citizenship” which is a part of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution adopted on July 9, 1868
- The fist sentence of the 14th Amendment is “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
- This has already been temporarily blocked by a federal judge
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