Issuing fresh guidelines to implement his border security and immigration policies, US President Donald Trump has asked the Department of Homeland Security to find, arrest and deport the illegal entrants in the country.
The fresh orders are likely to affect 11 million undocumented immigrants, including 300,000 Indians who are now reportedly at the risk of deportation.
The fresh orders broaden the scope and ways in which the laws may be enforced.
“The Department no long will exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement,” The Department of Homeland Security chief, John Kelly said in a memo to different departments.
“Department personnel have full authority to arrest or apprehend and alien whom an immigration officer has probable cause to believe is in violation of the immigration laws,” the memo reads.
While the emphasis is on those migrants who have committed crimes in America, the two memos also broaden the scope for detaining and removing others.
It said President Trump is of the view that keeping those illegally entering the United States in detention was the most efficient way of implementing the law.
“Detention also prevents such aliens from committing crimes while at large in the United States, ensures that aliens will appear for their removal proceedings, and substantially increases the likelihood that aliens lawfully ordered removed will be removed,” it said.
Press Trust of India reports that there are 300,000 illegal Indians immigrants in America.
The DHS Secretary John Kelly said the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement will hire 10,000 more officers expeditiously.
The DHS Secretary has the authority to expedite the process of deportation of illegal immigrants who have not been admitted or paroled into the US, and who have not been continuously physically present in the US for the two-year period immediately prior to the determination of their inadmissibility.
Those facing persecution or torture in their home country, or the ones with an unaccompanied minor will be exempt from this expedited deportation process.
