Undocumented immigrants married to US citizens may be deported. 50 thousand children too

Trump promised, the Judiciary fulfilled (long before the elections). Federal judge overturned a Biden administration policy that prevented families from being separated.

It is estimated that around half a million spouses of US citizens born abroad can benefit from the Biden administration’s proposal, announced in June under the slogan “Keeping Families Together” (“Keeping Families United”), which opened registrations on August 19, says .

Just a week later, the Texas District Judge Campbell Barker suspended the program.

As the British newspaper writesit would be unlikely that the short-lived initiative would remain in force after Trump’s inauguration in January, who has repeated that he is planning one for immigrants.

The new president even stated that immigrants were “” the nation. But the early end of the measure “creates greater uncertainty for immigrant families”, writes The Guardian.

Barker suspended the initiative in August after Texas and 15 other states, led by Republican attorneys general, filed a lawsuit that accused the executive branch of bypassing Congress to help immigrant families with “blatant political goals.”

The Republicans’ argument was that the initiative creates costs for states and could attract other immigrants to the country. US non-citizens married to a citizen They are already eligible to obtain citizenship, but this process can take years.

Meanwhile, Mexican Foreign Minister J.uan Ramon de la Fuentecontinues to admit, in a press conference this Friday, that the Mexican measures they want prevent immigrants from reaching the border to the north with the United States are “working well and Mexico will continue on this path.”

The Mexican minister further explained that the number of migrants detained by US authorities at the border decreased by 76% since December last year.

The president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumsaid at the same conference, cited by The Guardian, who already spoke with Trump on the phone: “He raised the issue of the border, and he just said it, and I said to him: ‘Yes, there is the issue of the border, but there will be space to talk about it‘”, said the president, who guaranteed that the conversation was “very cordial”.

What is worth remembering is that Mexico depends economically on the USA (destination of around 80% of its exports) and which Trump threatened to apply 25% tariffs to all Mexican exportsunless your government stopped migrants and drugs from crossing the border.