New immigration guidelines expected to speed up some deportations

Kelly detailed plans to hire several thousand enforcement agents, to enlist local law enforcement for arrests and to more aggressively remove undocumented immigrants, according to the guidelines obtained by media outlets.

The department’s two memos were signed by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and addressed to the heads of departments under Homeland Security, including Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

All immigrants caught entering the United States will be placed in detention until their cases are resolved.

In his first memo, Kelly approves the hiring of 10,000 new ICE officers and 5,000 new staff for the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in response to Trump’s January 25 executive order, which calls for at least 5,000 new hires.

Kelly’s directive on border patrol focuses on a proposed U.S. -Mexico border wall as a necessary tool to “deter and prevent” illegal entry of immigrants.

President Donald Trump’s administration has tightened rules on deportation on deportation. The Obama administration’s nationwide “Cross Check” operations apprehended more than 2,000 “convicted criminal aliens who pose the greatest risk to our public safety” in a similar five-day sweep in 2015.

“It is not meant to produce mass roundups”, a Homeland Security official told reporters during a briefing about the memos.

President Donald Trump just massively expanded the number of illegal aliens that Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers are allowed to target for deportation, all but negating former President Obama’s scaled-back enforcement priorities and ramping up measures to increase border security along with deportations. That sets the stage for what could be a much wider-ranging routine of targeting undocumented immigrants for arrest. Under the new Trump policies, officials said Tuesday, anybody in the USA illegally is subject to deportation at any time. It is not known whether the White House may alter the guidance. This would be used for people who are not considered a threat to cross the border illegally again, the memo said.

That includes people convicted of fraud in any official matter before a governmental agency and people who “have abused any program related to receipt of public benefits”.

The Trump administration is preparing to make big moves in their crackdown on illegal immigration.

One of the memos says that foreigners sent back to Mexico would wait for their USA deportation proceedings to be complete.

Previous year the sheriff’s department informed ICE of 84 people in the country illegally who were booked and detained. Their parents could be subject to prosecution though, especially if they paid human traffickers to transport their children over the border.

This is altering policy, not changing the law, which is why Congress doesn’t need to sign off on these new guidelines.

In another manpower boost, DHS is expanding the 287 (g) program.

DACA was repeatedly threatened on the campaign trail by Trump, who called it a “horrible order” and promised it would be ended immediately, according to The Hill.

Up until last week, Trump also to tackle criminals as a priority.

The memos are now under review by the White House Counsel’s Office, which is reportedly seeking some changes.