Immigration policies amid a global pandemic

Governments around the world had to implement emergency measures when the massive outbreak of Coronavirus started.

Clearly, the pandemic forced countries to close borders, safeguard local resources, improve the health system, and protect the local population at all costs.

The public health threat caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has been so impactful that many government decisions have created controversy among different communities around the world.

In the case of the US, some of the most recent changes in immigration policies have sparked a relentless fight between the Trump administration and immigrant rights advocates who claim that sudden changes are affecting the lives of innocent people.

Express deportations

For instance, express deportations in the midst of the pandemic are routine and have unleashed countless criticisms about the Trump administration and how it is managing the Coronavirus outbreak.

Currently, deportation regulations are not being fully followed for multiple reasons:

• The government wants to prevent more immigrants from entering Immigration Detention Centers around the country.
  These centers are already overcrowded and there are hundreds of positive cases of Coronavirus, which worsens the situation for immigrants and risks the health of employees of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE).
  Thus, a vast majority of immigrants who are detained trying to cross borders illegally are deported almost immediately during the health crisis.
• If immigrants arriving at the borders of the US do not meet certain requirements to apply for political asylum, the Supreme Court of Justice allows express deportations to be used without the need of a previous review by a local judge.

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Current deportations

Despite the economic and health crisis that Central America is going through, the US continues with the express deportations in the midst of the global pandemic of COVID-19.

That is the case of:

• Guatemala: This Central American country had suspended deportations from the US after more than 25% of the country’s Coronavirus cases came from deported immigrants.
  Today, Guatemala has strict regulations to receive deported immigrants.
  The last official statement was published on Tuesday, July 7, when a deportation flight from the US arrived in Guatemala with 74 immigrants.
• Dominican Republic: This Caribbean country has received several deportation flights from the US during the current health crisis.
  However, the deportations of Dominicans have increased considerably in recent weeks.
  For example, on Tuesday, July 7, 105 immigrants were deported from the States to the Dominican Republic. This is the largest number of deported immigrants that has entered the country since the arrival of the Coronavirus in the world.

ICE ensures that all the guidelines established by government agreements are being followed. In addition to that, the medical personnel must perform a health examination before deporting immigrants to Central American countries.

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