Immigration is a global sensitive topic, but there is no doubt that the country headed by Donald Trump, the U.S., is stealing the spotlight. Following the strict measures taken against immigrants in the United States, the USCIS (Citizenship and Immigration Service of the United States) announced that being a green-card holder to prove permanent residence is not a right but a privilege, and that all immigrants must obey the law. It doesn’t matter what status you are in, just that you act under American laws. I guess that includes immigrants and born and raised north american, right?
Inmigration
According to the Office of Homeland Security Statistics, an immigrant any person lawfully in the United States who is not a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or person admitted under a nonimmigrant category as defined by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) section 101(a)(15).
Neither in this nor in any other definition of the term immigrant will we see any kind of negative or denigrating connotation, since it does not fit with reality. An immigrant is a person who for economic, social, family, health or personal reasons decides to leave his country of origin and start his life in another country. Apparently the Trump administration and the Republican himself seem to have another definition that we have not been able to find in any reliable reference source.
Strict measures
The images of buses loaded with immigrant minors being deported, as well as planes being chartered, returning hundreds of immigrants to their countries of origin are not new. The measures taken in this second term of President Trump have gone beyond the strict. According to his administration, public safety never rests, so the list of measures will continue to grow. This tightening of measures has not only affected USCIS, but all the migration entities in the country, which have strengthened the laws and requirements to regularize their migratory situation.
Social networks
Among the comprehensive mechanisms that have been put in place to carry out the processes of immigration regularization, it has even gone so far as to rigorously scan the social networks of immigrants. USCIS has stated in recent weeks that its assessments will be drastic and without exception. You will have the power not to issue a green-card if you consider that the person may pose a risk to the population or a public burden. In addition, depending on the case – and apparently no criteria to be followed -, he may refuse the green card to those who he considers carry out anti-Semitic activities.
 Revocation of green cards
Documented or not, being an immigrant in the United States means having a thousand eyes inspecting you continuously. The latest tightening of immigration laws affect both those who are undocumented and those who have a green card and have their documentation in order. According to the Government, it will have the power to revoke the green card for those immigrants. Insists that being able to regulate their documentation is not a right but a privilege, which can be withdrawn at any time.
The hardness of the measures has gone beyond; they can not only remove green cars, but can reach extremes such as deportation, as we have already seen on several occasions. Weeks ago we have seen how many visas have been cancelled, affecting many universities, depriving a large number of students to train academically.
The current state of immigration in the United States is, to say the least, tense and repressive. The delicate situation that the country is going through with the second term of Trump and the global economic situation have caused an increase in security measures, affecting among other topics, immigration. We’ll have to let time pass and let the situation settle down.
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