DHS in Process of Implementing January 25 Immigration Executive Orders
The Department of Homeland Security is attempting to implement the two January 25, 2017 Executive Orders that seek to tighten immigration enforcement. CNN and other new outlets report that DHS Secretary John F. Kelly plans to issue guidances (here and here are drafts) on the implementation of the orders in ways that will ramp up immigration enforcement. Greg Siskind has summarized the provisions of the border enforcement memo.
I have always been of the view that these two Executive Orders. which are focused on immigration fro Mexico and Central America, will have impacts on much greater numbers of noncitizens than the January 27 Executive Orderss visa and refugee admissions suspension (which has gotten much more publicity and been the subject of a flurry of high profile lawsuits). Namely, the heightened focus on crime-based removals will likely ensure for the indefinite future that 95% or so of the noncitizens removed from the country are from Latin America. just as was the case during the Obama years.
KJ