The Trump administration is granted immigration and customs officers to the Rapid Deportation Authority to immigrants who have been allowed temporarily to enter the country under Biden’s era programs, according to an internal government note obtained by the New York Times.
The memorandum, signed by the Acting President of the Ministry of Internal Security, on Thursday night, provides to officers of the Immigration and Customs Department a road map on how to use the expanded authorities that were only for a long time for confrontations on the southern border to quickly remove migrants. It also seems that the officers are given the ability to expel migrants in two main programs from the Biden era, allowing more than a million people to temporarily enter the country.
These programs – an application called CBP One which migrants can use to try to schedule dates to enter the United States, and an initiative that allows some immigrants fleeing from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti – is one of the basic pillars of the Biden administration’s efforts to discourage illegal entry by allowing some legal paths. Immigrant defenders also expressed concern about the possibility of applying the memo to Afghan and Ukrainian immigrants who were brought to the United States as part of separate programs.
The decision indicates that President Trump will try to use every aspect of the immigration law enforcement system to eliminate the system that has long said that he was offended, and that he intends to target not only those who infiltrated across the borders but even those who followed them. Pre -entry passengers.
This is also certainly concerned between a large group of immigrants, many of whom have fled desperate circumstances, and they believe that they are legally present in the country, and they may be afraid to return to their countries of origin, which are often dangerous.
Both the distinguished programs of former President Joseph Ra Biden Junior have faced severe criticism from Republicans, including Trump administration officials, as a way to facilitate illegal immigration through a government program curtain. Migrants received a grant to stay in the country for up to two years under a temporary legal status known as “conditional release.” It seems that the note allows them to be deported, regardless of whether they have reached the end of their legal status and still have a remaining time.
In all, the country entered the two programs about 1.4 million immigrants since the beginning of 2023.
A senior official in the Ministry of Internal Security, who spoke, said, provided that his identity was not disclosed, that efforts are based on Mr. Trump’s belief that Mr. Biden’s immigration programs were not at all legal and that immigrants in the country should be removed illegally.
Stephen Miller, chief White House deputy and engineer of the militant immigration policies pursued by Trump, explained that he opposes both programs.
“Here is an idea: Do not transport millions of illegal immigrants from the failed countries that are thousands of miles away to small towns through American territory,” Miller said on social media in September.
The memo was met with immediate criticism of immigrant defenders and former Biden officials.
“In addition to raising serious legal concerns, subjecting people who adhered to the rules to a process of deportation with brief procedures is a necklace and unprecedented betrayal,” said Tom Gaetz, a prominent lawyer at the Biden Department of the Biden Administration.
Karen Tomlin, director of the Judicial Labor Center, a group of advocacy for immigrants, said the decision was a mistake. She believed that the memo may also allow immigration and customs administration officers to try to deport immigrants from Afghanistan and Ukraine.
She said: “American societies have opened their hearts and homes for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Afghanistan and Ukraine.” Punishing people who did everything the government requested, and many of them have a residing in the United States, by carrying out the deportation with brief procedures, this is terrible. “
Mr. Trump ordered the agency to close the Biden era programs on Monday. On the same day, Benjamin C issued. Hoffman, Acting Minister of Internal Security, is a separate memorandum in which he orders the gradual cancellation of all these programs. On Tuesday, the administration expanded the powers of the deportation.
On Thursday, Mr. Hoffman made additional instructions to the agency regarding the two main decisions and how they interact with each other.
In the memo, the Immigration and Customs Administration officers directed the analysis of migrants whom the agency is known and who can be deported under the new rapid deportations, which avoid immigration courts, and consider whether they should be deported from the country. The memorandum indicates that the officers are priority to the migrants who were in the country for a longer period of a year, but they did not apply for asylum.
As part of this, the memo says that if necessary, officers can decide to move to the abstraction of conditional release, a form of temporary legal status. Immigrants who were brought in the framework of the Biden Covenants – in addition to other initiatives that include Afghans and Ukrainians – are present in the country according to this specific form of the temporary situation.
If immigrants are already undergoing the official deportation process – which may take years – the immigration and customs administration officials can instead include them in the rapid deportation program.
The memorandum also provides the officials of the Immigration and Customs Administration the ability to target those who were in the country under a temporary program, but they remained more than two years for official deportation procedures.
The rapid deportation authorities have already been stabbed before the Federal Court in Washington by the American Union for Civil Liberties. The lawsuit filed on Wednesday says the decision violates federal law.
“The Trump administration wants to use this illegal policy to feed the collective deportation agenda and tear societies,” said Anand Balkarishnan, the lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union, in a statement. He added that “expanding the expedited removal process would give Trump a law of fraud to circumvent the due legal procedures and the constitution, and we are here again to fight it.”
