Border forces and mass deportations

It is no secret that the current administration of the US has the purpose of reducing illegal immigration, especially from Central America.

Since President Trump took office in 2017, in addition to curbing illegal immigration, multiple strategies have been implemented to “teach a lesson” to people who decided to cross the country’s borders without documentation.

The Trump administration disagrees with the idea of offering legal work and residency options to undocumented immigrants, mainly because this would incentivize more illegal immigration. This includes unaccompanied immigrant minors, asylum seekers, and immigrants applying to other humanitarian programs.

One of the main strategies of the Trump administration to achieve this goal is to invest large amounts in the growth of border forces such as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is one of the branches of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

That is why the Trump administration has hired more than 10,000 ICE employees during the last three years.

Currently, ICE has the responsibility not only to protect the borders from illegal immigration, but to carry out operations within the country to locate immigrants who managed to cross the borders without prior authorization and who have resided in the country without documentation for a considerable period of time.

ICE resumes operations after pause due to pandemic

The alarming number of people infected with Coronavirus is the reason why the US is still the main epicenter of the global pandemic. Therefore, due to the unprecedented health crisis, operations to detain undocumented immigrants were suspended during the massive outbreak in the North American territory.

However, ICE has already resumed its tasks, including detaining undocumented immigrants around the country to complete their deportation processes as soon as possible. With this, we refer to people who, on many occasions, have lived in the US for more than 30 years.

The agency conducts meticulous investigations that can take several months before it can complete the task of detaining undocumented foreigners.

In fact, ICE recently captured 125 undocumented immigrants in Texas during a single operation (to read more about this news, please click here). Aside from that, official figures show that since ICE resumed operations in June 2020, it has captured more than 2,000 immigrants.

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