▲ Migrants captured yesterday while crossing the Turquesa River, after clearing the Darién Pass between Colombia and Panama to continue their journey to the United States.Photo Ap
From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 10, 2024, p. 18
A group close to the US president-elect, Donald Trump, is developing paths in order to materialize the Republican’s campaign promise to carry out mass deportations of undocumented immigrants, according to people working on the government transition, members of Congress and other people close to him. to the Republican, reported The Wall Street Journal.
The magnate’s advisors discuss what executive actions will be necessary for said agenda, and how to finance it. It is estimated that carrying out the massive return of foreigners with irregular entry to that country could cost around 88 billion dollars a year.
Policy changes are expected, including reversing a Joe Biden administration order that Immigration and Customs Enforcement not pursue undocumented migrants who have not committed other crimes, to focus first on those who have received final deportation orders from a court and those with other criminal convictions or charges.
Trump also promised to end the CBP One program, created in early 2023, which allows foreigners who want to live and work in the United States to make an appointment online, without having to arrive at the border post, in addition to resurrecting the immigration protocols of his first government, such as the Stay in Mexico program, which forced asylum seekers to wait for a response to their procedures in Mexican territory.
At any cost
We have no choiceTrump declared to NBC after his victory. People have killed and murdered, drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they are going to return to their home nation because they are not going to stay here. At whatever pricehe added.
The elected Executive’s wishes also include completing the controversial wall on the border with Mexico and making the asylum application process more difficult by adding new requirements, said Trump’s senior advisor, Jason Miller, interviewed by NBC. You can simply flip the switch and put them back into operation as they were. They didn’t need an act of Congresshe assured.
The Wall Street Journal published that the new administration also intends to eliminate the humanitarian shield against the deportation of millions of migrants who are beneficiaries of the temporary protected statuswhich covers hundreds of thousands of Haitians and Venezuelans.
Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy believes the next president should ignore those protections because were issued illegally.
Meanwhile, Trump argued that an aggressive deportation effort is necessary to get the country back on track, after an estimated 8 million people entered the United States illegally during the Biden administration.
Republicans intend to use a process called reconciliation to push for legislation to fund the costly proposal for massive return trips to foreigners; Reconciliation can be approved with a simple majority, instead of the 60 votes usually required for laws, as long as the changes made are budgetary and not policy.
Trump’s party already has control of the Senate and is close to obtaining control of the House of Representatives, which would allow the measure to be approved without support from Democrats.
Republican wins Arizona
In addition, the tycoon won in Arizona yesterday, returning the state and its 11 electoral votes to the Republican column after Joe Biden’s victory in 2020. The victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris marks Trump’s second conquest in Arizona since 2016.
In the opinion of experts, restricting the already limited legal routes of entry to the United States will only make migrants adjust their plans and resort more to the services of human smugglers.
Those possibly affected are men, women and children from dozens of countries. Many of whom have already started the trip, and possibly had to sell everything to finance the journey to the american dream.
Mexicans accounted for half of Border Patrol arrests in September. Venezuelans continue to arrive at the southern US border, as do Chinese (via Ecuador), and Senegalese (from Nicaragua).
The International Organization for Migration affirms that they are displaced for political, economic or violence reasons, and that more and more foreigners will seek asylum.
Biden will receive his successor in the White House
Meanwhile, Joe Biden and Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday in the Oval Office, the White House confirmed. The meeting between the outgoing and incoming president is traditional and is aimed at marking the beginning of a peaceful transition of power under democracy. When Trump finished his term he did not receive Biden, after losing the elections in 2020.
With information from Ap