Ximena Bustillo
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NPR News: 01-29-2025 6PM EST
The measure has been criticized by immigration advocates who say it limits due process, and they say research shows immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born citizens. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News.
NPR News Now
NPR News: 01-29-2025 6PM EST
The first law of Trump's new term in office directs federal immigration enforcement to detain and deport those without legal status charged with certain crimes, including minor theft or shoplifting, assault of a law enforcement officer, or crimes resulting in death or serious bodily injury of another person.
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NPR News: 01-21-2025 7PM EST
Schools, places of worship and health care facilities were off limit for arrests of people suspected of being without legal status under a policy from former President Joe Biden. Now the acting Secretary of Homeland Security has rescinded those guidelines, which the Trump administration says limits law enforcement from doing its job.
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NPR News: 01-21-2025 7PM EST
It's not known yet how immigration enforcement agencies will ramp up operations. Trump border czar Tom Holman says officials are, quote, back and doing their job effective today, he told CNN in an interview. Still, he declined to provide specific information. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
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NPR News: 01-17-2025 6PM EST
Noem testified before Congress about her goals to help President-elect Donald Trump increase border security measures and limit immigration.
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NPR News: 01-17-2025 6PM EST
During the hearing, she vowed to revoke several Biden-era programs, such as the CPB-1 app that allows migrants to apply for asylum. and to revoke a parole program for certain Haitians, Cubans, Venezuelans, and Nicaraguans. Unlike other nominees, Noem has not faced much criticism from Democrats. She's expected to receive enough votes to take up the post. Ximena Bustillo, NPR News, Washington.
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New ICE Policies, Hegseth Claims, West Bank Attacks
Well, the administration has now cleared the way for arrests in schools. The old rule said that schools as well as places of worship, health care facilities and a list of other areas were off limits to arrests of people suspected of being without legal status.
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New ICE Policies, Hegseth Claims, West Bank Attacks
Now the acting secretary of Homeland Security has rescinded those guidelines, which the Trump administration says limits law enforcement from doing its job. My colleague Brian Mann spoke with Bishop Matthew Hyde, who leads the Episcopal Diocese of New York. And Hyde disputes the idea in the administration's announcement that criminal migrants were, quote, hiding in schools and churches.
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New ICE Policies, Hegseth Claims, West Bank Attacks
But we don't know yet how immigration enforcement agencies are planning to ramp up their operations.
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New ICE Policies, Hegseth Claims, West Bank Attacks
The department also issued two notices to start the process of implementing some of Trump's executive actions. One includes phasing out humanitarian parole programs. This includes the program that granted permission for certain people from Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela to be in the U.S.
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New ICE Policies, Hegseth Claims, West Bank Attacks
It's not really known what will happen to the hundreds of thousands of people currently living with humanitarian parole. This also accelerates a Biden-era decision to not renew the legal status of those under the program. Another action set in motion is restarting full implementation of Remain in Mexico.
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New ICE Policies, Hegseth Claims, West Bank Attacks
This was a program from Trump's first term that required migrants to wait in Mexico while their asylum claims were being adjudicated in the U.S. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum told reporters yesterday that there needs to be a conversation with U.S. federal agencies.
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New ICE Policies, Hegseth Claims, West Bank Attacks
The main target of the lawsuits continues to be Trump's executive action that aims to reinterpret the 14th Amendment. This is the amendment that grants citizenship to nearly every person born on U.S. territory. It says all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens.
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New ICE Policies, Hegseth Claims, West Bank Attacks
Trump wants to change this widely understood meaning of those words and make citizenship dependent on the status of one's parents and whether they're here in the U.S. legally, illegally, or on visas. A group of 18 Democratic state attorneys general, including from New Jersey and California, joined the legal fight to block the move.
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New ICE Policies, Hegseth Claims, West Bank Attacks
And a coalition of civil rights and liberties groups also filed a separate lawsuit.
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Trump Day One, Immigration, January 6 Pardons
Trump signed executive actions aimed at increasing border security and reducing pathways for legal migration. Some included his boldest promises, like reinterpreting the 14th Amendment to mean that those born in the U.S. do not get automatic citizenship, as has been the most common interpretation.
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Trump Day One, Immigration, January 6 Pardons
Trump also brought back some policies from his first term, resuming border wall construction and pausing refugee resettlement. A few other things happened yesterday as well. He shut down the CPB1 app. This was something President Joe Biden created, which allowed migrants to schedule appointments at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border. This created immediate impact at the southern border.
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Trump Day One, Immigration, January 6 Pardons
People who had waited months to be able to schedule an appointment suddenly lost that chance.
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Trump Day One, Immigration, January 6 Pardons
This is something that he has long promised to do, though this is already being challenged in courts. Last night, a coalition of civil rights and civil liberty groups filed a lawsuit in New Hampshire saying Trump's decision was unconstitutional and goes against congressional intent and longstanding Supreme Court precedent. And others are looking into this, too.
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Trump Day One, Immigration, January 6 Pardons
And there's a lot of unknowns generally about the ability to implement many of these actions. For example, Trump says he wants to send the military and National Guard to the border, but there's no clarity on who would go, how many, or to do what.
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Trump Day One, Immigration, January 6 Pardons
Trump selected South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to lead Homeland Security, but she has not been confirmed yet by the Senate. There are also key posts at the Defense Department that may need to be in place to deploy resources to the southern border. And agencies like DHS do need congressional funding to scale up their operations.
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Trump Day One, Immigration, January 6 Pardons
And while there is interest in having border security be a part of the next budget-related measure, that's still several weeks away, if not months.
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Trump Day One, Immigration, January 6 Pardons
Twelve Democrats joined Republicans to pass the Lake and Riley Act. This is a bill that would lower the bar for who the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can detain and deport based on their crimes, such as theft or assault against law enforcement. The bill now goes back to the House, which is expected to pass it.
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Trump Day One, Immigration, January 6 Pardons
And this could reach Trump's desk as the first legislation that he signs in his second term. But it might be pretty hard to implement. I got an internal memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that said that they'd need $26 billion in just the first year to comply with the order to house those they detain and to hire more people to process them.
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Immigration Crackdown, Health Officials Muted, Oscar Nominations
The bill makes it easier for federal immigration authorities to detain and deport anyone without legal status for crimes like shoplifting, assaulting a police officer, or causing bodily harm to another person. The bill is named after a Georgia woman who was killed last year by a Venezuelan man who was in the U.S. without legal status. Supporters argue that this will increase public safety.
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Immigration Crackdown, Health Officials Muted, Oscar Nominations
The man who was sentenced to life in prison for killing Riley had previously been charged with shoplifting. Proponents say that if he had been detained by immigration officials sooner, Riley might still be alive. But others oppose the bill and say that it bypasses due process. since a person won't have to be convicted of a crime to be detained or deported.
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Immigration Crackdown, Health Officials Muted, Oscar Nominations
Immigrant rights groups also argue that research shows immigrants commit fewer crimes than those born in the U.S. These same advocates say the bill also pushes a false narrative about a connection between crime and immigration status.
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Immigration Crackdown, Health Officials Muted, Oscar Nominations
Right. This time around, 46 Democrats in the House joined Republicans in supporting it. When the bill passed the Senate, 12 Democrats voted for the bill. That is one sign of how some Democrats are shifting on immigration, especially after Trump made immigration a central plank of his campaign.
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Immigration Crackdown, Health Officials Muted, Oscar Nominations
It's going to be very difficult. ICE is one of the federal agencies responsible for deportations. In a memo obtained by NPR, the agency warned that implementation of the bill... was impossible to execute within existing resources. They said that it would cost $26 billion to implement in the first year.
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Immigration Crackdown, Health Officials Muted, Oscar Nominations
This money is needed for more than 100,000 new beds and hiring more than 10,000 enforcement and removal personnel, which all, of course, takes time to scale up. The agency also warns that it expects some state and local law enforcement agencies to refuse to cooperate.
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Immigration Crackdown, Health Officials Muted, Oscar Nominations
Republican senators told me last night that they're looking to give ICE the resources it needs through the budget process.
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Immigration Crackdown, Health Officials Muted, Oscar Nominations
The acting Secretary of Defense said on Wednesday that roughly 1,500 ground personnel, as well as helicopters and intelligence analysts, will be going to the southern border to increase detection and monitoring efforts. They will also help with building physical barriers along the border and provide military airlifts to support the Department of Homeland Security. with deportation flights.
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Immigration Crackdown, Health Officials Muted, Oscar Nominations
This comes after the White House effectively closed off asylum at the southern border, ordering agents to immediately deport anyone who crosses between ports of entry.