Mexican Immigration Policy
On the Mexican side of the border, there are some social problems. People try to get through the border all the time to escape poverty and violence, but gaining legal entry is very difficult. The new arrivals are given an electronic anklet and a court date to seek Asylum, but there only a certain amount of people can gain entry this way. President Trump has suggested ending this policy known as “Catch and release by building new detention centres, or by forcing them back over the border to Mexico. This is even if they are not Mexican citizens, which is very controversial. Trump is determined to up security and end large scale illegal immigration into the country.
In the weeks before the election, homeland security member Jeh Johnson announced
that far fewer Mexicans and single adults are attempting to cross the border without authorisation, but more families and unaccompanied children and fleeing the poverty and violence, heading towards the border. Per the Pew Research Centre, “unauthorised immigration” has actually declined since the start of the recession in 2007.
Donald Trump singed two executive orders on immigration in January 2017. These in detail were to do with how federal officials will have more authority to detain and deport immigrants living in the US illegally. Trump said he plans to deport about 2-3 million undocumented immigrants. Provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act authorize the Homeland Security Department “to return aliens arriving on land from a foreign territory contiguous to the United States, to the territory from which they arrived, pending a formal removal proceeding.” Many asylum seekers looking to live in America have previously been detained in the States, but under Trumps plan they would have to do so from Mexico, using videoconference calls and facilities provided by the Mexican government. Recently said by Trump, "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people—probably two million, it could be even three million—we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,"
In the weeks before the election, homeland security member Jeh Johnson announced
that far fewer Mexicans and single adults are attempting to cross the border without authorisation, but more families and unaccompanied children and fleeing the poverty and violence, heading towards the border. Per the Pew Research Centre, “unauthorised immigration” has actually declined since the start of the recession in 2007.
Donald Trump singed two executive orders on immigration in January 2017. These in detail were to do with how federal officials will have more authority to detain and deport immigrants living in the US illegally. Trump said he plans to deport about 2-3 million undocumented immigrants. Provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act authorize the Homeland Security Department “to return aliens arriving on land from a foreign territory contiguous to the United States, to the territory from which they arrived, pending a formal removal proceeding.” Many asylum seekers looking to live in America have previously been detained in the States, but under Trumps plan they would have to do so from Mexico, using videoconference calls and facilities provided by the Mexican government. Recently said by Trump, "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people—probably two million, it could be even three million—we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,"