{"id":28937,"date":"2020-11-02T13:51:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T21:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28937"},"modified":"2020-11-02T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T21:51:41","slug":"second-trump-term-may-end-birthright-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28937","title":{"rendered":"SECOND TRUMP TERM MAY END BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by\u00a0Pilar Marrero<\/a><\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Nov 2, 2020<\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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From left to right: Ali Noorani, President & Chief Executive Officer of the National Immigration Forum; Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute\u2019s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity; Juan Escalante, undocumented immigrant with DACA, Dreamer leader<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By Pilar Marrero<\/p>\n

A second term for the Trump Administration will likely result in further erosion of the legal immigration system and key protections granted by the 14th amendment including birthright citizenship, immigrant rights experts warn.<\/p>\n

The 14th amendment \u2013 ratified in 1868 \u2014 granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and guaranteed all citizens \u201cequal protection of the laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy read is that (the Trump administration\u2019s) efforts for the 2020 Census not to count the undocumented are the early steps to making the case that the 14th amendment doesn\u2019t apply to the immigrant community,\u201d said Ali Noorani, President & Chief Executive Officer of the National Immigration Forum during a briefing with ethnic media. \u201cI do expect that if we see a second term, there will be a steady stream of executive orders or even litigation to chip away at those rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

The balance of the first term on immigration policy was extremely damaging to the legal immigration system as well as visas for business, students and even visitors, said Alex Nowrasteh, Immigration Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute\u2019s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity.<\/p>\n

The Administration has basically shut down the asylum system and every work visa category, and cut the issuance of green cards to people seeking to immigrate to the United States by 92%, Nowrasteh noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat decline in green cards for people outside of the country is the largest we have seen in American history, greater than the one we saw after first closing the open borders with Europe in the 1920s, greater than the cut during the Great Depression and both World Wars,\u201d Nowrastreh added.<\/p>\n

The Administration has cut refugee admissions to the United States by 85% since 2016, despite a record number of refugees needing resettlement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe justification for reducing asylum was national security fears that refugees from Syria or others were a serious terrorist threat. And yet, the data doesn\u2019t bear that out\u201d.<\/p>\n

The analyst noted that among people killed on U.S. soil in a terrorist act between 1975 and 2017, only three were killed by admitted refugees. \u201cAnd those were all in the late 1970s.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critics have said that the U.S. under Trump has abandoned its long-standing role as a safe haven for persecuted people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government has virtually shut down the asylum system and put in place numerous restrictions,\u201d said Nowrasteh. \u201cMost spectacularly, the one that says they have to wait in Mexico for their court dates has resulted in refugee camps on the Mexican side of the border, a huge sham that intends to raise the personal cost and make it more difficult to gain asylum.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to Covid, but continuing a trend that started before the pandemic, the US government has shut down every work visa category with the exception of H2B, the program for seasonal agricultural workers, he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is enormously destructive for the US economy\u201d, said Nowrasteh.<\/p>\n

Trump was successful in restricting the entrance of foreigners, but not in deporting large numbers of people, especially compared to the Obama years. \u201cThey tried, but many major cities and governors did not cooperate with the federal government and became sanctuary cities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Advocates for DACA recipients and other immigrants without a permanent status say that their situation will be even more precarious during a second Trump term.<\/p>\n

Juan Escalante, a DACA recipient and long-time immigration advocate, said that he expects no move from a second Trump administration other than using DACA as a bargaining chip for obtaining more restrictive legislation from Congress.<\/p>\n

During a recent town hall with voters, Trump responded to a question on DACA saying he would do something \u201cyou would like very much\u201d on the issue. But Escalante is doubtful.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf anyone believes that they need to read up on what happened in the last four years,\u201d he said. \u201cAlthough we won a reprieve from the Supreme Court this summer, the administration kept up the attacks, cutting the program from two years to one, essentially doubling the fee to apply, which puts it beyond the reach of many young people, especially students\u201d.<\/p>\n

Noorani indicated that if Biden wins, he expects to see a willingness to extend DACA and TPS, a temporary status that currently protects over four hundred thousand people, mostly from El Salvador, Haiti and Honduras, but also Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The Trump administration has moved to end the program, and most will start losing status early next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also expect a push for legalization, particularly to ensure that the essential immigrant workforce will enjoy full legal status,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Noorani advised that advocates need to broaden the pro immigrant coalition by speaking to conservatives and moderates, including religious groups, so the \u201cdemand for immigration reform doesn\u00b4t only come from immigrants but from many segments of society which are in favor of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nowrasteh said that the best path for reform for Biden would be congressional action. \u201cLasting reform means we need legal changes passed by Congress to create a much better immigration system, and also restrict the president power to reduce immigration in the future\u201d.<\/p>\n

Escalante believes that advocates need to be \u201cpragmatic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot repeat mistakes of the past where we attempt to pass one thing, then we end up with nothing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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