They are very close, but their goal is inaccessible. This is the situation for many migrants on the Mexican side of the border with the United States.
A woman, who asked to be anonymous for fear for her safety, told DW that she left her home in southern Mexico as the criminals tried to kidnap her and her daughter. DW spoke to him in Siwad Juarez, near the border with Texas. “We have no choice, because we can’t just say,” Let’s start again, “he explained. “We are still in Mexico, and the gangs are powerful. They are everywhere.”
Only the second side of Rio Grande is the United States. The Franklin Mountains have a hometown of Amy Sainthon, a grid-pattern city of 680,000 people. She works with a Catholic organization called Hope, which concerns herself with the US immigration policy. Sentylon told DW, “We have really imposed hard restrictions in the past, and the numbers have not changed.” “If people do not feel safe in their countries, they are going to come regardless.
Trump has closed the legal route for America
Donald Trump, who returned to the White House this week, has made border security one of the top priorities at the beginning of his second presidential post. He declared the emergency situation on the southern border, and took the first step towards deploying the army and starting a large scale. Concarmedly, the Congress passed a law for the convenience of arrest and exile.
Nevertheless, the border regime Trump, his predecessor, inherited from Biden, which is already difficult – the strict of any democratic president to date. In June 2024, Biden influenced the new rules, among other things, prevent people from asking for shelter if they have illegally crossed the border. Bus Biden Biden left the office, the Homeland Security Department announced that the thesis new rules have reduced by 60%from across the illegal border. However, the Biden administration created a legal route to claim asylum: the “CBP One” app of border agencies, which allowed people to make an appointment to apply on the border. Donald Trump closed the app soon after assuming office.
Amy Santran from Hope says that, while the app was not completely satisfactory, was leased that the process on the border was on the systematic process. “It ended to end, and then families whom the appointments used to show and the legs and legs showed that their appointments were canceled, after waiting for months in Mexico – it was real shocking. Apply for, or ask for any kind of relief to cross the border.
What has Donald Trump ordered?
Trump’s new rules are beyond just closing the app. executive Order He released on Monday, directing US departments to cooperate with US departments of US departments, who want to build additional sections of the wall along the border with Mexico. By declaring the state of emergency, the President has enabled him to use money without the need for Congress’s approval.
A major section of the order is dedicated to the deployment of personnel and resources. In this, the Trump Defense Secretary instructs the Secretary to send the members of the Armed Forces and to provide the necessary logical services to the Homeland Security Department.
It is importing to note that it says that thesis is to be “supplied in support of civil-controlled law enforcement operation.” This is not a military campaign – at least, not for now. Trump has requested updates on measures and their effects within 30 and 90 days.
How does military deployment move forward?
Ever since the Executive Order was issued, the Pentagon announced the deployment of 1,500 soldiers from the Army and the Navy. Their first task wants to create boundaries obstacles. They will strengthen about 2,500 soldiers first deployed under Biden to support the Civil Border Guard.
In Texas, they will join forces with a border security operation run by the National Guard since 2021 and will be funded by the state so far. In a speech to supporters immediately after his inauguration, Trump indicated that he saw Operation Loan Star – a highly controversial Texas Border Patrol Scheme that Potley violates us the Constitutional Commission – as a model. When some people said Greg Abbott, Texas governor is responsible for the operation, what is sitting in front of him, Trump was full of praise. “He is doing an unprecedented job,” he announced. “But now you are going to be a partner who is going to work with you.”
In theory, the National Guard is subject to the command of the Governors of the federal state. Members of the California National Guard are currently helping to fight fire in and around Los Angeles. Therefore it can be deployed to suppress the riots, as after the death of George Floid in Minnesota in 2020. However, in the event of war, or if the emergency situation is declared, the National Guard can be deployed by the Congress, President or Defense Secretary.
Will Trump implement 200 years old law?
Unlike the National Guard, the regular army cannot be easily deployed within the US. The Pos Committetus Act of 1878 prohibits it. But there is a clear exception to this federal law: the so -called rebellion act of 1807. It was originally able to enable the rebellion to bring the President into the army. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, under George W Bush, it was extended to cover military aid in response to natural disasters.
In his decree, Trump demanded a report from the defense secretaries and interior within 90 days whether the situation on the border should be asked to implement the Act. Doing so will allow Trump to start a more comprehensive military operation, including large -scale exile of the people without a legitimate residence permit.
Any discovery step by Trump administration will be unavoidable in court. More 8 states have already filed cases against Trump’s executive order this week, which has announced that children born in the US will be eligible only for American citizenship if their parents meet specific residence requirements . This is contrary to the US Constitution, which does not ban congenital citizenship.
Amy Saintson in El Paso believes that, despite his determination, Trump wants his final goal not to achieve. “What she wants is to prevent people from coming, and to stop for immigration,” she says. “And it’s not going to bite.”
Additional reporting by Benjamin Alvarez Grube in El Paso and Eater Saaz in Siudad Juarez.
This article has been translated from German.
