The Trump administration plans to roll out online registrations for illegal immigrants this week to force undocumented immigrants to submit personal information or face fines and arrests. It is being told.
The required registry requires illegal immigrants, including minors over the age of 14, to submit fingerprints and home addresses. US Citizens and Immigration Services.
Immigrants who fail to register will be fined as much as $5,000 and could be sentenced to up to six months. Wall Street Journal It was reported on Tuesday.
“Aliens in this country face illegal choices,” he reads a memo from Homeland Security Secretary Christa Noem on the upcoming policy. “They can go home and follow legal procedures to come to the US, or they can deal with the consequences of continuing to violate the law.”
The move is part of President Trump's efforts to strengthen the country's immigration laws and enforcement.
Under current rules, domestic immigrants are illegally committed civil offences rather than criminals, but still can be detained and deported.
The registry is on the Department of Homeland Security radar and aims to attract illegal immigrants who have not interacted with the government, including asylum and seeking work permits.
According to documents viewed by the Wall Street Journal, if a registered website is running, it takes 30 days for illegal immigrants to submit their personal information.
“After an alien has registered and appears for fingerprinting (unless it is abandoned), DHS will issue evidence of registration. Aliens over the age of 18 must always be carried and owned.” Service website was posted on Tuesday.
“This is the legal obligation of all unregistered aliens in the United States (or children registered before turning 14) to comply with these requirements,” the notice continues. “If you fail to comply, you will receive criminal and civil penalties, including misdemeanor prosecution and fine payment.”
Trump's first day executive order – protecting American citizens from invasion – has set up a registration for the DHS under section 262 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, saying that “failure to comply will be treated as a civil and criminal execution priority.” I guarantee.”
According to the U.S. Citizens and Immigration Services, “Most aliens in the United States have already registered as required by law.” “However, the considerable number of aliens in the United States did not have a direct way to register and meet obligations under INA 262.”
“To ensure that unregistered aliens comply with their obligations under INA 262, USCIS has established new forms and processes that may register. Aliens who make excuses for not complying with this law are now plug.”
The agency points out that “registration is not an immigration status and the registration document does not establish employment permits or other rights or interests under INA or other US law.”
There are precedents for creating such a registry.
In 1940, the US government requested that all immigrants register annually to eliminate suspicious communists. According to the journal, the registry was too expensive to maintain and by the 1960s it was unused.
It was also created by former President George W. Bush. Immigration registration In the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack.
Tens of thousands of migrants who had registered under the Bush-era program were arrested and deported, the Journal reported.
The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a Post Office request for comment.
