The defenders of the Bay area for foreign citizens living in the United States without authorization or with temporary legal status are denouncing the increasingly aggressive tactics of the Trump administration against migrants.
“It has a great impact on our region,” said Erin, an immigration lawyer based in San Francisco, of the Immigrant Legal Resources Center, and added that at least one in four families here are composed of people with various immigration states, and migrants work in jobs in jobs in jobs this this
“We are a community based on the spine of immigrants,” said Quinn. “Create an environment with so many unknowns and fears makes it difficult for families to make effective decisions and know what will happen tomorrow or the next day, what has a great impact on all of us and work on our communities.”
The administration, which works to comply with Trump’s campaign promise to offer “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country”, has taken measures measured on several fronts. The United States National Security Department has recognized its objective of pushing migrants to withdraw from the country.
“The convincing mass self -portedness is a safer path for aliens and the application of the law, and saves dollars from US taxpayers, in addition to conserving valuable customs and border protection and immigration resources and compliance with Customs Customs Sapy,” The Safe “, the” safe “insurance.
National Security has ordered people in the USA without legal status to register with the federal government under the federal law of long -standing but sporadical applied. And, according to a report by the New York Times Thorsday, the Social Security Administration has put 6,300 people, who were granted a temporary legal status under former President Joe Biden, in the list of the Social Security Administration of dead people. That effective list cancels its social security numbers and closes access to new bank accounts, credit cards, student loans and other services that require the number to verify the identity.
Meanwhile, the Department of National Security and the IRS signed this week a memorandum of understanding that will allow the tax agency to share the current addresses of migrants whose ordered in the last 90 days. And the authorities have canceled hundreds of visas from foreign students, including many in the Bay area, with federal officials who cite “anti -Semitism” and critics who claim that it is a punishment for protesting the Israel War in Gaza.
The government efficiency department led by Trump and Tesla advisor and the CEO of Spacex, Elon Musk, said in a social media post on Thursday that customs and border protection of the United States had identified 6,300 people who were given the temporary residence of the United States under Biden that have criminal records or were in the list of surveillance of the terrorist of the FBI. That temporal legal status has “finished with an immediate effect,” said Dege. Those were the same 6,300 people in the Social Security List of Social Security, the Associated Press reported Friday.
Quinn said the notion that the authorities found so many people in temporary status that they were criminals or terrorists suspended “absurd”. The Trump administration, he said, is bordering legal standards and displaying “a hate toolbox” designed to foster fear and panic with the aim of coercing migrants to leave the country.
“It echoes the policies we have seen in authoritarian regimes,” said Quinn. “Our legal system, designed to support and foster democracy, requires that they bring those people to the immigration court.”
People put on the Social Security List of Social Security legally entered the US.
Horne said he hoped that American citizens and many permanent residents would mistakenly appear.
“Social Security administration is not configured to understand people’s immigration,” said Horne, adding that leaving the list would probably be difficult.
“It gives a lot of damage, economic damage, emotional damage, people by mistake,” said Horne.
The registration mandate has been in the books since 1940, but it has rarely applied.
“For decades, this law has been ignored, not anymore,” said Homeland Security in a press release on February 25.
Those in the country without permission that have not yet registered requesting a visa must register and have the need for digital footprints, and parents must register children under 14, and children who register and obtain digital footprints again in their 14th birthday, said citizenship and immigration services of the United States.
Do not register, said national security, “it could result in a fine, imprisonment or both.”
But who should register is an uncle, also to immigration lawyers, because migrants have already done so through other government processes, they said immigration experts.
“They promoted the whole matter very fast,” said Horne. “Even within their objectives, they could have done much more complete about who is applied.”
And registration requires completing a form that can only be completed in English, and includes a question about each activity that a registrant has uploaded in the USA. And all planned activities, said Quinn.
“I have no idea what parameters of what a broad base question in the activities is meean to include,” said Quinn, adding that the form also seems to violate the protection of the Constitution against self -revival by demanding people who list people.
Quinn said that people who believe they may be obliged to register should seek the advice of a lawyer or legal defender.
The registration order lacks protections for people who have experienced domestic violence or sexual aggression and wish to maintain their confidential addresses for security reasons, said Horne.
Horne highlighted the dangers of registering and not registering, and pointed out that doing so requires providing a address.
“There is a risk of application of immigration against them, and on the other hand, immigration threatens to judge people for not registering, so it is a CATCH-22,” said Horne.