When President-elect Trump enters the Oval Office in January 2025, he will bring changes to the way U.S. immigration policy is implemented, including a historic deportation operation, a crackdown on alien gangs, and a widespread repeal of parole for immigrants. Very likely. And he has put building a new border wall at the top of his agenda.
“We're going to fix our borders,” President Trump said Wednesday while declaring victory. “We're going to make everything right about this country, and there's a reason we made history tonight.”
Trump has made immigration and ending the southern border crisis a central focus of his campaign, just as he did during his first run for the White House in 2016.
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Former President Trump speaks at the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Sierra Vista, Arizona, on August 22, 2024. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Those calls were fueled in part by the historic crisis at the border that exploded on President Biden's watch and just months after President Trump left office. While the Biden administration blamed underfunding and a broken immigration system, President Trump and his Republican allies instead pointed to the administration's rollback of Trump-era policies.
Whatever the reason, millions of immigrants flooded into the United States, and their numbers soared in 2021 and remained at record highs through 2022 and 2023. Migrants continue to flow into the United States, although their numbers fell sharply in June after Biden restricted entry. Widespread use of humanitarian parole.
Although their numbers are currently dwindling along the border, 2024 will see a series of high-profile crimes committed by illegal immigrants, including those who were allowed to enter the U.S. under the administration. There was also
President Trump has made clear his intention to change the clock, pledging to end “all open border policies of the Biden administration” during the campaign.
President Trump says if elected, he will launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history''
He pledged to continue construction of the southern border wall, more than 450 miles of which were built during his first administration. He also vowed to launch “the largest domestic deportation operation in U.S. history” to deport millions of illegal immigrants.
“Following the Eisenhower model, we will carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” President Trump said.
He also pledged to shift the bulk of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement and invoke the Alien Enemy Act to target cartel members and members of violent gangs like Venezuela's Torren de Aragua.
Last month in Aurora, Colorado, he said Election Day would be known as “day of liberation” for the United States from foreign occupation.
The U.S.-Mexico border wall in Sasabe, Arizona, December 8, 2023. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)
“Our country is occupied by criminal forces, an occupying nation that refuses to let our great law enforcement agencies do the work they so dearly desire,” he said in Aurora. “But to all of you here in Colorado, and to all of you across the United States, I take this oath and pledge that November 5, 2024, will be American Emancipation Day.”
When it comes to actions taken by the Biden administration, a future Trump administration could potentially improve humanitarian parole, where hundreds of thousands of immigrants have been brought in both at ports of entry and at controversial immigration sites using the CBP One app. It is likely to be withdrawn from widespread use. The travel permit program for citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela allowed 30,000 people to enter the country each month from these countries.
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Republicans also want stricter enforcement of Temporary Protected Status, which would give foreign nationals from certain countries protection from deportation and work permits if it is deemed unsafe to return.
The incoming administration could repeal the Biden administration's domestic ICE enforcement restrictions, limit refugee admissions, and reinstate public charge rules that restrict the ability of immigrants deemed likely to rely on welfare to apply for green cards. Highly sexual.
Trump-era policies that could be reinstated include the Remain in Mexico policy, which allows immigrants to remain in Mexico while their asylum cases are heard, and travel bans from countries considered national security threats. Included.
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Last week, President Trump also raised the possibility of imposing tariffs on Mexican goods to force Mexico to strictly control the number of imports from the north.
“I'll let you know [the Mexican president] “If we don't stop the onslaught of criminals and drugs coming into our country on day one or sooner, we're going to immediately impose a 25 percent tariff on everything they send into the United States,” he said.
Meanwhile, it's unclear whether Trump's election will deter immigrants from entering the U.S. or trigger an eventual surge in immigration before the president takes office in January.
