This Wednesday, the president Donald Trump issued a proclamation and signed an executive order allowing the closure of the southern border to undocumented immigrants, and has instructed all authorities to take the necessary measures to repel, detain and deport all those with irregular immigration status.
The decree “suspends the physical entry of foreigners who participate in an invasion of the United States through the southern border.”
With this executive order and under the Immigration and Nationality Act, as well as the United States Constitution, President Trump is authorizing and directing the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Department of State to take all necessary measures to “immediately repel, repatriate, and expel undocumented aliens” across the country’s southern border.
Trump has thus given the green light and support for mass raids that end in deportations.
The decree also states that President Trump has further restricted access to provisions of immigration laws that would allow any “illegal alien involved in an invasion” across the southern border of the United States to remain in the country, such as asylum.
It should be noted that after Trump took office as the 47th president of the United States, the CBP One application stopped working, while it sent alerts about the cancellation of appointments to every immigrant who had an appointment with immigration authorities at the border to discuss the possibility of asylum. This left migrant lines at eight border posts between Mexico and the United States.
The news has been received with sadness and uncertainty by thousands of migrants seeking to enter the country legally.
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