{"id":65597,"date":"2024-06-24T14:23:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T21:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=65597"},"modified":"2024-06-24T14:23:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T21:23:05","slug":"how-would-trumps-immigration-plan-change-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=65597","title":{"rendered":"How Would Trump\u2019s Immigration Plan Change the U.S.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_59 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_59\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span><a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/author\/selen-ozturk\/\">Selen Ozturk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_60 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_60\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><i class=\"tdb-date-icon tdc-font-fa tdc-font-fa-calendar\"><\/i><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-06-19T12:09:45-07:00\">Jun 19, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_61 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_61\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>In his first presidential term, Donald Trump obstructed asylum, imposed a \u201cMuslim Ban,\u201d undermined Temporary Protected Status, terminated DACA and separated families at the border. This time, his immigration plans are even more ambitious.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_62 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_62\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb\" title=\"immigration us\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/immigration-us.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2398px) 100vw, 2398px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/immigration-us.png 2398w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/immigration-us-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/immigration-us-1024x553.png 1024w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/immigration-us-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/immigration-us-1536x829.png 1536w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/immigration-us-2048x1105.png 2048w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/immigration-us-150x81.png 150w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/immigration-us-696x376.png 696w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/immigration-us-1068x576.png 1068w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/immigration-us-1920x1036.png 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"2398\" height=\"1294\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_63 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_63\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>In his first presidential term, Donald Trump obstructed asylum, imposed a \u201cMuslim Ban,\u201d undermined Temporary Protected Status, terminated DACA and separated families at the border. This time, his immigration plans are even more ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>If elected this November, Trump\u2019s plans include mass deportations and detention camps, legal immigration category freezes, re-invoking public charge and penalizing states that offer in-state tuition to undocumented students.<\/p>\n<p>At a Friday, June 14 Ethnic Media Services briefing, immigration policy experts discussed Trump\u2019s plan \u2014 outlined in Project 25, a report from conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation \u2014 and its impact on U.S. citizens, immigrants and the economy.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Immigration policy in Project 25<\/h2>\n<p>Project 25 \u2014 the newest iteration of Mandate for Leadership, a series of playbooks published by The Heritage Foundation recommending conservative policies to be implemented by the federal government \u2014 includes over 175 immigration policy changes and a chapter written by Ken Cuccinelli, immigration director under President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese policies abandon traditional conservative values like supporting business growth, decentralizing power away from the federal government and decreasing bureaucratic hurdles, often doing the opposite,\u201d said Cecilia Esterline, immigration research analyst at the Niskanen Center. \u201cThey should be taken seriously; President Trump implemented nearly 64% of the prior Mandate for Leadership\u2019s recommendations within the first year of his administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-video-replacer\" data-id=\"undefined\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"KO9gIoDP_Js\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget2\" title=\"Anti-Immigration \u2018Project 2025\u2019 Plans to Punish States That Provide Loan Access to DACA Students\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KO9gIoDP_Js?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-12=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Cecilia Esterline, Immigration Research Analyst, Niskanen Center, explains how Project 2025, a conservative plan for immigration, would use funding from the Department of Education to bully states into complying with anti-immigration policies.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cUsing executive authority, without Congress, they hope to introduce processing delays,\u201d she continued. For instance, H2A and H2B visas are seasonal visas sustaining the agricultural, construction, forestry and hospitality industries. Project 2025 argues that no updates to eligible countries should be issued, which would essentially grind the program to a halt.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Labor Department certified 370,000 temporary H2A jobs in 2022, while the H2B cap was raised from 66,000 to 130,716 visas for 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey also create new standards cutting off intake for entire categories of immigration; for example, any deemed to have an excessive backlog,\u201d Esterline added. \u201cHowever, excessive is not defined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another policy would process every approval through a secondary office that currently completes around 35,000 cases a year, rather than through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which completed 8.6 million in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Project 2025 also recommends denying Department of Education loans \u2013 based on mandatory information sharing with the federal government \u2013 to states that allow in-state tuition to \u201cillegal aliens,\u201d including DACA recipients.<\/p>\n<p>While only citizens and green card holders are currently eligible for federal student aid, state tuition is determined according to state-defined residency terms. Currently, 26 states and the District of Columbia allow DACA recipients to qualify for in-state tuition, while 23 states and D.C. allow undocumented immigrants meeting minimum residency length to qualify.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 10.7 million U.S. students are enrolled in higher education in states allowing<br \/>\nin-state tuition to \u201cillegal aliens.\u201d Under this policy, up to 67% of all U.S. higher education students could lose access to federal aid because their state offers in-state tuition to undocumented or DACA students.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Implementing immigration policy under Trump<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to these proposals, most policies from the first Trump administration would be \u201creimplemented in some form\u201d in a second term, said David J. Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute.<\/p>\n<p>These prospective policies include the \u201cMuslim Ban\u201d expanded to include more non-Muslim countries like Venezuela; restricting parole sponsorship for the current 30,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans entering the U.S. monthly; removing the CBP One app allowing 1,500 daily legal migrations from the southwest border; and reducing the refugee program, which was capped below 10,000 under Trump\u2019s final year \u2014 the smallest cap in history, 90% less than that under Obama and dramatically less than the over 100,000 admitted refugees projected this year under Biden.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-video-replacer\" data-id=\"undefined\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Th77Z83ahkc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget4\" title=\"Refugee Program Likely to Be Gutted Under Trump Presidency\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Th77Z83ahkc?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-12=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>David J. Bier, Director of Immigration Studies at Cato Institute, shares his thoughts on how a Trump presidency will impact the refugee category of immigration.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTrump left office in 2020 with the highest number of border patrol arrests for any December, going back to 1999 \u2026 and removed more people mainly by increasing the immigrants held in detention\u201d by a peak of about 20,000 more beds amounting to roughly 60,000 removals, said Bier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis time isn\u2019t anywhere near that scale,\u201d he continued, as Trump has campaigned on calls to detain and deport 15 to 20 million people by using the National Guard and coerce sanctuary cities into compliance by withholding federal funds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s illegal and unconstitutional,\u201d he added. \u201cThe only question is whether there\u2019s anyone who can stop the president, any president, from violating the Constitution in these ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Political implications<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s immigration agenda presents three interrelated threats in the form of mass deportation, political violence and a threat to American democracy \u2026 where the law becomes a challenge to overcome rather than an impediment to rein in the vision,\u201d said Zachary Mueller, senior research director for America\u2019s Voice Education Fund.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign\u2019s calls to deport 15 million to 20 million immigrants are far above the nation\u2019s actual undocumented population. As of 2021, there were 10.5 million undocumented U.S. immigrants \u2014 about 3% of the total population and 22% of the foreign-born population, the lowest since the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2007 and 2021, the U.S. undocumented population decreased by 1.75 million, or 14%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not just going to go after new arrivals but also the 80% of the undocumented population who have called the U.S. home since 2010 \u2014 a second-grade teacher with DACA, a home health care aide with TPS, a farm worker keeping food in the grocery store,\u201d said Mueller. \u201cNor will the havoc be contained to those who lose that legal status. One estimate has found that over 4.4 million U.S. citizen children could be affected if this plan goes into full effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"td-video-replacer\" data-id=\"undefined\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ALXbZXoPB9Q\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget6\" title=\"Detention, Militarized Mass Deportation on Trump\u2019s Immigration Agenda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ALXbZXoPB9Q?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-gtm-yt-inspected-12=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Zachary Mueller, Senior Research Director for America\u2019s Voice Education Fund, discusses the promises of Trump and his allies to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, including DACA recipients and those with temporary protected status.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Although the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits the military from enforcing regular civilian law, would also prohibit it from enforcing mass deportation, \u201cothers like Stephen Miller and Ken Cuccinelli will suggest policies to grant themselves and red state governors war powers,\u201d he continued, \u201cwhether that be around the Insurrection Act, or asserting the white nationalist conspiracy that immigrants constitute a literal military invasion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Republican campaign spending grows, so does rhetoric around an immigrant \u201cinvasion.\u201d The word has appeared in 27 TV ads for Republican candidates totaling over $5 million, according to AdImpact.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, in 2022, the word \u201cinvasion\u201d appeared in 22 ads totaling $3.3 million; in 2020, it appeared in four ads costing under $300,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security has repeatedly warned that the language of invasion and replacement have become the mainstream of immigration talking points from Republicans this cycle,\u201d said Mueller. \u201cDriving this anti-democratic conspiracy is the baseless myth of a threat of non-citizen voting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just about these individual policies,\u201d Mueller added. \u201cBy laying the foundation for their supporters to believe the election was rigged, Trump and Republicans may be in lockstep \u2014 if the immigrant demagoguery fails to deliver them the electoral college victory in November \u2014 for another violent assault on our democracy \u2026 by a white nationalist vision that seeks to remake who gets to be American.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BySelen Ozturk Jun 19, 2024 In&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65598,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65597\/revisions\/65598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}