SÃO PAULO, SP (FOLHAPRESS) – The President of the United States, Donald Trump, revoked this Tuesday (21) a Joe Biden government regulation that prohibited the arrest of irregular immigrants in places considered sensitive, such as schools, hospitals and churches.
Now, agents responsible for identifying, apprehending and deporting people who are in the US illegally are authorized to enter these places to look for immigrants. According to the acting director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Benjamine Huffman, “criminals will no longer be able to hide in the country’s schools and churches”.
Huffman also revoked a series of moratoriums established by the Biden administration that allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to remain in the US.
On his first day back in office, Trump signed a series of decrees aimed at combating immigration – the most controversial of which suspended American citizenship for children of illegal immigrants born in the country.
The decree, an important part of Trump’s attack against immigrants that should be a pillar of the new government, openly contradicts the country’s Constitution, and at least 22 states governed by Democrats have gone to court against the federal government to overturn the measure.
DHS also said on Tuesday that it will accelerate deportations of immigrants who meet the following requirements: having entered the US illegally, not having regularized status, and being unable to prove that they have lived in the US for at least two years.
Trump also ordered federal agents not to prioritize operations only against criminals accused of serious crimes, but rather on any immigrant who has already received a deportation order.
