By Matthew Atungwu President Donald Trump of the United States has proposed significant fines, potential imprisonment or both for illega...
By Matthew Atungwu
President Donald Trump of the United States has proposed
significant fines, potential imprisonment or both for illegal immigrants who
fail to register with the federal government.
The directive was issued by the Department of Homeland
Security on Tuesday.
“The Trump administration will enforce all our immigration
laws — we will not pick and choose which laws we will enforce. We must know who
is in our country for the safety and security of our homeland and all
Americans,” a department spokesperson said.
According to the US Citizenship and Immigration Services
website, all immigrants over the age of 14 who were not fingerprinted or
registered when applying for a US visa and who remain in the United States for
30 days or longer are required to register and be fingerprinted.
The website said once an immigrant has registered and been
fingerprinted, the Department of Homeland Security will issue evidence of
registration, which must be carried by immigrants over the age of 18 at all
times.
Trump, on his return to office last month, declared illegal
immigration at the Mexico border a national emergency and directed the
department to ensure that immigrants register with the federal government.
The administration has sought to shut down the previous
Biden administration’s One entry program, which had allowed hundreds of
thousands of migrants to enter the US legally by scheduling an appointment on
an app.
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