Warning of Drastic Changes in U.S. Deportations

Washington, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) The proposals of Kris Kobach, candidate of the U.S. president elect, Donald Trump, for the post of Secretary of Home Security, could drastically change the deportation regime that exists today in the United States.

Kobach, secretary of State of Kansas, known for his hard-line stands against undocumented immigrants, was photographed on Sunday when exiting a meeting with Trump and the image showed parts of a docvument he had in his hands, with initiatives for the first 365 days of the new administration.

According to daily The Hill, in the part of the picture where the text is observedk, it can be read in the first two sections measures to prevent the entry of potential terrorists to the United States.

It also refers to procedures for the expulsion of a record number of foreigners to be arrested for committing any offense or being a member of any criminal gang.

According to the regulations of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), criminal foreigners are citizens of other countries condemned by specific categories of offenses or are suspects of other infractions as terrorism or for falsely proclaiming they are U.S. citizens.

Due to the fact this category is equally applicable to those who are authorized to reside in the country and to the undocumented, the changes in the definition could affect any foreign individual on a visit or residing in the northern nation.

Activists of civil rights alert that increasing the rank of the categories of deportable individuals, the authorities could expel men and women who are not U.S. citizens, on the basis of simple accusations by members of the interior security agencies.

For most of infractions or felonies, including those of transit, a policeman would be authorized to emit a subpoena or to arrest any suspicious individual and in this way the person would be marked as a law breaker, told The Hill the president of the National Association of Defense Lawyers, Barry J. Pollack.

Pollack said the initiatives of Kobach are questionable from the legal point of view and noted this is an irony from he who aspires to be chief of the DHS, if he does not know how to adequately put a confidential document in his briefcase.

Trump promised last week in an interview on TV he would give priority to the deportation of 'possibly two million even three million foreigners'.

From 2009 to 2014, under the presidency of Barack Obama, were deported 2.4 million persons to their countries of origin, while in 2015, U.S. authorities expelled 235 thousand 413 individuals.
Source: Prensa Latina