New Delhi:
One of the biggest decisions that Donald Trump will take as soon as he assumes the presidency of America is the deployment of troops on the southern border. Trump can reverse the parole policy of outgoing President Joe Biden. He can also order to start the work on the wall on the southern border, which he has been shouting about during the election campaign.
According to Fox News, the executive orders to be signed after Trump’s inauguration will include an order to resume wall construction on the southern border.
“I will end the illegal immigration crisis by closing the border and completing the wall,” Trump told cheering supporters at his party’s national convention, referring to the country’s southern border. Have already made it.”
Trump may direct his administration to reinstate the Migrant Protection Protocols policy of his first term, commonly known as ‘Remain in Mexico’.
Donald Trump has promised to launch the largest deportation campaign in US history to expel all people living in the country illegally. The Republican leader has also talked about closing the border and ending illegal immigration.
Process of granting entry on parole in America
Let us tell you that through CBP One App, the process of granting entry to migrants on parole in America and the parole process for citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) are included. Under this, 30,000 citizens were allowed to come and enter America every month. Nearly 1.5 million people have entered the US under the CBP One app. According to reports, about 2 lakh 70 thousand migrants are waiting for entry through CBP One app at the US-Mexico border.
Securing the southern U.S. border, primarily the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), remains a controversial issue as increasing numbers of migrants from Asia, Central America, and elsewhere enter the United States through Mexico. Wants to do. President Donald Trump and Democratic lawmakers fought over funding for a wall along the US-Mexico border, leading to a government shutdown, a presidential emergency declaration and the deployment of thousands of National Guard and active-duty troops to the border.
At the start of his administration, President Joe Biden reversed several Trump-era decisions, including halting border wall construction, relaxing some restrictions on asylum seekers and refocusing regional diplomacy to target the root causes of irregular migration. Adoption was involved. However, the continued increase of migrants arriving at the border is putting pressure on the US immigration system.
What’s happening at the southern US border?
Over the past decade, pressure on the American immigration system has been increasing. Illegal border crossings hit a record high after the number of migrant arrivals declined in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fiscal year 2023 (FY23), US immigration authorities apprehended nearly 2.5 million people at the US-Mexico border, the highest number ever recorded. By mid-2024, this number had already increased to more than 1.3 million, with over a fifth of all migrants coming from the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. Other major origin countries include Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti and Venezuela.
However, between December 2023 and April 2024, illegal border crossings declined by nearly 50 percent. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas attributed the decline to various U.S. efforts, including stronger border enforcement and the expansion of legal immigration routes . Other experts also point to increased efforts by Mexican authorities to slow migration to the United States and increasing deportations.
The southern US border extends approximately two thousand miles to the southern tip of Texas.
The southern U.S. border, spanning nearly two thousand miles from Southern California to the southern tip of Texas at the Gulf of Mexico, has long been the area of ​​greatest concern for Border Patrol agents. Of the nine border areas spanning Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, the most apprehensions since 2020 have occurred in the easternmost part of the border in Texas, called the Rio Grande Valley Sector. Then there’s Del Rio in southwestern Texas, which previously experienced only modest levels of migration.
The people coming to the southern border have been changing with time. For much of the 1990s and 2000s, they were largely from Mexico and often adults looking for work. Although migration from Mexico declined sharply in the mid-2000s, it remains the country of origin for most entrants. Meanwhile, the number of immigrants from other regions, including Asia and Central and South America, has also increased in recent years.
