The National Immigration Law Center warned the registry was meant to help find potential targets for deportation.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is creating a registry for all people who are in the United States illegally, and those who don’t self-report could face fines or prosecution, immigration officials announced Tuesday.
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Everyone who is in the U.S. illegally must register, give fingerprints and provide an address, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. It cited a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act — the complex immigration law — as justification for the registration process, which would apply to anyone 14 and older.
The announcement comes as the administration seeks to make good on campaign promises to carry out mass deportations of people in the country illegally and seal the border to future asylum-seekers.
“An alien’s failure to register is a crime that could result in a fine, imprisonment, or both,” the statement said. “For decades, this law has been ignored — not anymore.”
On its website, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service said it would soon create a form and process for registration.
In one of his 10 inauguration day executive orders related to immigration, President Donald Trump initially outlined plans for creating a registry and required that Homeland Security “immediately announce and publicize information about the legal obligation of all previously unregistered aliens in the United States to comply.”
It was not immediately clear how many people living in the country illegally would voluntarily come forward and give the federal government information about who they are and where they’re living. But failure to register would be considered a crime, and the administration has said its initial priority target for deportation is people who’ve committed crimes in the U.S.
We had two terms of Obama and ring kissing of foreign leaders…
We had one term of a broken mental incompetent as President and the cover-up ran to the highest level of government (both elected and civil service) and one party rule. Now we are finding out that it would appear the previous Democrat President was in fact exerting very heavy control as a shadow president.
Now they come after Trump for creating a document that allows the nation to do what the law requires.
Does anyone else find this strange and frightening?
How much longer before the not so loyal opposition figures it out and follows the intent as well as the Constitution?