Donald Trump and migrants: Responses to more sought after issues of the US President.

Only 10 days have passed since Donald Trump assumed power for his second term in USA. And there have been few controversial measures that have already launched, especially those that are related to migrants in an irregular situation, one of their campaign promises, which seeks to give a drastic turn to immigration policy in that country .

Given that panorama, many concerns arise about what is happening in the United States. Therefore, in this article we answer some of the most recurring doubts in Colombia about the issue of migration and Donald Trump, according to Google Trends data, related to recurring questions in the country, known by Caracol News.

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1. What did Donald Trump say about migrants?

That the president of the United States, Donald Trump, refers in a derogatory way to migrants is no novelty. Last September, in fact, during the presidential campaign against Kamala Harris, the Republican said – getting into false news – that “in Springfield, (migrants) are eating dogs, the people who have arrived, are eating themselves To the cats, they are eating the pets of the people who live there “and that” millions of people arrive in the country from prisons and prisons, from psychiatric institutions and asylum. ” For many analysts, those statements anticipated the tone that it would handle in their administration.

In recent days, when he ordered the Pentagon to prepare 30,000 beds in Guantanamo, Trump said that “illegal criminal migrants who are a threat to the American people.” “Some are so dangerous that we do not even trust their countries of origin so that they are left, because we do not want them to return,” he added.

And, in the midst of diplomatic tension with Colombia after the rejection of migrant deportation flights by President Gustavo Petro, the US leader insisted that the deportees were all criminals, something that the Colombian government has fully rejected. The authorities in Colombia, in addition, have found that deported compatriots who have arrived in the country in recent days had no debts with justice in our country.

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2. According to President Trump, what will happen to the children of migrants born in that country?

One of Trump’s most radical orders seeks to declare that the children of irregular migrants born in the United States would no longer have the right to obtain US nationality. According to the amendment signed by the president, this would even apply to the children of parents with temporary visas. But the measure is not yet in force.

It is worth mentioning that this principle is guaranteed by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States, which states: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and the State in the State in the that reside. ”

And, precisely for that reason, it is still difficult to determine if this Trump goal will prosper. At the moment, there are at least 22 states – among them California and New York – that have submitted demands to that executive order. In fact, New Jersey Attorney, Matthew J. Platkin, said it is an “extreme” initiative. “The presidents are powerful, but he is not a king. He cannot rewrite the constitution of a plumass,” he added. On Thursday, January 23, for now, the decree suffered the first setback, from a federal judge of Seattle, who considered it “clearly unconstitutional.”

Iván Espinosa-Madrigal, of lawyers defense of civil rights, a group that is part of the plaintiffs of the measure, denounces that Trump’s plan is “a violation of the constitutional rights of immigrants” and “violates fundamental rights established by the Constitution”.

The reality is that, in the United States, no president can modify by decree a right enshrined in the Constitution, but Trump could attempt a reform that would imply a long and cumbersome process with a lot of fight in the Courts. A constitutional amendment requires the support of two thirds of the House of Representatives and the Senate or be proposed by a constitutional convention convened by two thirds of each state legislature.

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When putting the issue on the table, the president “wants to start, rather than culminate”, a process that can lead to a legal debate that could reach the United States Supreme Court and “the risk is very large,” says Oscar Chacón , of Américas Alliance. “The current integration of the Court is very inclined in favor of what Donald Trump and the ultra -retrograde forces that are behind their presidency represent.”

3. What is happening with Donald Trump and migrants?

Trump returned to the White House with the promise to radically change the immigration policy of the United States, so he has announced a barrage of executive measures and orders in that regard. Just this Wednesday, January 29, he ordered the Pentagon and the National Security Department to enable 30,000 beds in the Guantanamo Naval Base, in Cuba, in order to stop undocumented migrants and signed his first law since he returned to power, which, which It allows immigration authorities to stop migrants for robberies and other minor crimes before they have been convicted.

This text will also authorize the general prosecutors of the states of the country to intervene in the migration policy decisions of the federal government. Among the new powers, they will be allowed to force the State Department not to grant more visas to citizens of countries that do not accept deportations in the United States.

According to US media calculations, the Government would need to spend more than 3,000 million dollars and increase the detention capacity and migrants to more than 60,000 beds to apply that law. Versions point out that Trump has pressed competent government agencies to impose a quota of minimum daily arrests per agent and raise the total number of arrests between 1,200 and 1,500 per day.

In any case, the president himself has suggested that the approval of this Wednesday’s law is only the principle.

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To date, the Trump administration deactivated the CBP One application, the application that was implemented in the Joe Biden government with which migrants could schedule their appointments with border patrol agents; He revoked the extension until October 2026 of the Temporary Protection Status (TPS) for Venezuelans, which allows more than 600,000 Venezuelans to work and reside legally in the United States, and canceled activated and/or current programs during the Biden government: sensitive areas: sensitive areas In National level, which allows you to deport any foreigner without legal status of permanence that has been in the United States for less than two years.

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4. What will happen to Colombian migrants who are working in the United States with the arrival of Donald Trump?

On paper, if your immigration situation is in order and up to date it would not face problems, at least in the short or medium term. The Trump government indicated this week that it considers all undocumented migrants as “criminals”, a change of tone in American politics that paves the way to its mass deportation plan of the more than 11 million people living in the country without legal status.

During a press conference this week, the White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt, indicated that “all” the more than 3,500 people arrested this week in immigration and customs service operations (ICE) have a “criminal record” because they are In the country irregularly. However, under American law, living in the country without authorization or legal status is not a criminal foul but civil. Therefore, it is false that undocumented people have in themselves a “criminal record” as the spokeswoman said.

Crossing the border without inspection – codified as ‘misuse’ – or trying to enter the United States after having been deported or expelled is typified in criminal legislation: the first, as a minor crime and the second as a serious crime. In the last 10 years, the United States Government has prosecuted cases against people who violate these laws, which has brought negative consequences for migrants or asylum seekers, including the separation of families, according to a report of a report from The American Immigration Council organization.

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To that panorama, entrepreneurs in the United States are added, who have denounced that they already observe a decrease in production in the face of fear that deportations ordered by Trump cause between migrants. According to Rebeca Shi, executive director of the American Business Immigration Coalition de Illinois, in deportations they have also fallen “essential workers”, although the government points out that they are focused on violent people and members of criminal gangs.

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The members of that coalition have already reported a 50% deceleration in their operations, because immigrants “paralyzed by fear” do not appear to work and remain in their homes, according to the entrepreneurs on Monday in a teleconference.

5. What country is Donald Trump’s mother?

Mary Anne Macleod, Donald Trump’s mother, was born in Scotland – the northernmost country in the United Kingdom – in 1912. He died in 2000. Macleod landed in the United States, specifically in New York, on May 11, 1930, as It consists of customs documents. His name appears in the immigration records of the time digitized by the Statue Foundation of Liberty- Ellis Island, which show that its #26698 visa had been issued in Glasgow on February 17, 1930, three months before the trip.