Newark, NJ (AP) – Trump administration announced on Friday that it was extending an accelerated procedure expulsion authority National, allowing immigration agents to expel migrants without appearing before a judge, while the president seeks to implement a vast program aimed at expelling all those who are illegally in the United States.
The news of the increased appeal to accelerated referral arises while Newark officials, in New Jersey, have been unleashed against what they consider illegal arrests by federal immigration agents in a local business.
At a press conference on Friday, the mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, said that the immigration and customs agents who presented themselves on Thursday in the company arrested three “undocumented residents” as well as certain citizens Americans. He said that a person had been questioned even after presenting a military identity document.
“When I received this information, I was dismayed, upset, angry that it happens here, in this state, in this country,” said Baraka, a democrat who seeks to be appointed governor by his party. “We are going to fight for all our inhabitants of this city, no matter what it means for us.”
About half of the city’s 305,000 inhabitants are black and almost 40 % are Hispanic, depending on the census figures.
The ICE described what happened Thursday as a “targeted repression operation” and said that agents could ask other people to identify themselves when they do “field work”.
“The American immigration and customs services may meet American citizens during field work and can request an identity document to establish the identity of an individual, as was the case during A targeted control operation on a site … in Newark, New Jersey, “the agency said in a statement. statement. Ice said she could not comment more because the investigation is active.
President Donald Trump’s administration has taken measures on several fronts to follow up on his electoral promise to suppress illegal immigration. And in the decrees signed after its entry into office on Monday, Trump exposed a vision for future actions Designed to considerably strengthen immigration controls within the country while reducing access to the southern border.
After declaring the state of national emergency and describes immigration to the southern border as an invasion, Trump sent military troops to the border; raised the long -standing rules that have restricting the application of laws on immigration near schools and churches; indefinitely suspended the program for refugees; and interrupted the main immigration paths in the Biden era.
Friday, the administration said that it expanded the use of “accelerated dismissal” so that it can be used throughout the country and that it immediately takes effect.
“The effect of this change will be to strengthen national security and public security – while reducing government costs – facilitating rapid immigration decisions,” the administration said in a statement. Notice in the Federal Register describing the new rules.
The “accelerated referral” gives the organizations responsible for the application of the law a broad power to expel people without obliging them to appear before an immigration judge. There are limited exceptions, especially if they express their fear of going home and pass a first selection interview for asylum.
Critics said there was There are too many risks that people who have the right to be in the country be arrested by mistake by agents and officers and that one does not do enough to protect migrants who have real reasons to fear ‘be sent home. Friday’s opinion indicates that the person subject to an accelerated dismissal “brings the positive charge to demonstrate to the satisfaction of an immigration agent” that he has the right to be in the United States.
These powers were created under a law of 1996. But they were not really used until 2004, when internal security said that it would use accelerated expulsion power for those arrested in Two weeks following their entry to the United States by land and arrested within a radius of 160 kilometers from the border. This meant that it was mainly used against recently arrived migrants.
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Santana reported from Washington.
