‘Independence Day’: What to expect from President-elect Trump on border security, immigration
When President-elect Trump enters the Oval Office in January 2025, he will likely change the way the United States conducts immigration policy – with a historic deportation order, crackdown on foreign gangs, an end to the widespread use of parole to allow immigrants, and renewed construction of a border wall at the top of the agenda. his.
“We’re going to fix our borders,” Trump said Wednesday as he announced victory. “We’re going to make everything right for our country, and we’re going to make history for a reason tonight.”
Trump made immigration and ending the crisis at the southern border a central part of his campaign, as he did in his first 2016 bid for the White House.
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Former President Trump speaks at the US-Mexico border on Aug. 22, 2024, south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Those calls were fueled in part by the historic border crisis that erupted under President Biden’s watch and just months after Trump left office. While the Biden administration blames funding shortfalls and a broken immigration system, Trump allies and Republicans point to a rollback of Trump-era policies by the administration.
Whatever the cause, millions of immigrants poured into the United States as numbers peaked in 2021 and remained high in 2022 and 2023. The numbers fell sharply in June after Biden limited entry into the US, although migrants continued to come to the US in transit. extensive use of humanitarian parole.
While the numbers are now down at the border, 2024 saw a series of high-profile cases of illegal immigrants, some of whom were allowed to enter the US under the administration.
Trump has made his intention to turn the clock clear, promising during his campaign to end “every open border policy of the Biden administration.”
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He has promised to continue building the wall on the southern border, more than 450 miles of which was built during his first administration. He also promised to launch “the largest domestic deportation program in American history” to deport millions of illegal immigrants.
“Following the Eisenhower Model, we will carry out the largest deportation in American history,” Trump said.
He also promised to change large parts of federal law to enforce immigration, and to use the Alien Enemies Act to target cartel members and members of violent gangs like the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua.
He said in Aurora, Colorado, last month that Election Day would be known as America’s “Independence Day” in the foreign service.
The US-Mexico border wall in Sasabe, Arizona, on Dec. 8, 2023. (Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images)
“We’re full of criminal gangs, and we’re a busy country that refuses to let our great law enforcement do the job they want to do,” he said in Aurora. “But to everyone here in Colorado and throughout our nation, I make this pledge and pledge to you, Nov. 5, 2024, will be Independence Day in America.”
Regarding the actions taken by the Biden administration, the future Trump administration will reverse the extensive use of humanitarian parole that has seen hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought in using the CBP One application – both at ports of entry and through the controversy. a travel authorization program for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela that allowed 30,000 each month from those countries,
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Republicans also called for stronger enforcement of Temporary Protected Status, which gives foreigners from certain countries immunity from deportation and work permits if it is deemed unsafe to return.
The incoming administration will likely end the Biden administration’s internal ICE enforcement restrictions, limit refugee admissions and restore its public spending law — which limited the ability of immigrants to seek green cards if they appear to be dependent on welfare.
Other Trump-era policies that may return include the Remain-in-Mexico policy, which saw migrants stay in Mexico while awaiting asylum hearings, and travel bans from countries deemed national security threats.
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Last week, Trump also suggested the possibility of tariffs on Mexican goods to force Mexico to control imports from the north.
“I’ll let you know [the Mexican president] on the first day or soon if they do not stop this attack of criminals and drugs entering our country, I will immediately impose a 25% tax on everything they send to the United States of America,” he said.
Meanwhile, it remains unclear whether Trump’s election will deter immigrants from trying to enter the US, or whether it could spark a last-ditch effort to enter the country before he takes office in January.
