Trump's immigration plan will hit 3 lakh Indian-Americans

Nearly 3,00,000 Indian-Americans are likely to be impacted by the Trump administration’s sweeping plans that put the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation.

With US President Donald Trump laying the groundwork for deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, nearly 3 lakh Indian-Americans are likely to be hit. Trump has laid the groundwork for deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants. He has issued new guidance that broadens the ways in which federal immigration laws should be enforced.

The Department of Homeland Security said in an enforcement memo that the Department no longer will exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. "Department personnel have full authority to arrest or apprehend an alien whom an immigration officer has probable cause to believe is in violation of the immigration laws," it said.

PTI said that as per unofficial figures, Indian-Americans account for nearly 3 lakh illegal aliens. The memo also states that the DHS Secretary has the authority to apply expedited removal provisions to aliens who have not been admitted or paroled into the US, who are inadmissible, and who have not been continuously physically present in the US for the two-year period immediately prior to the determination of their inadmissibility, so that such aliens are immediately removed unless the alien is an unaccompanied minor, intends to apply for asylum or has a fear of persecution or torture in their home country, or claims to have lawful immigration status.

When illegal aliens apprehended do not pose a risk of a subsequent illegal entry, returning them to the foreign contiguous territory from which they arrived, pending the outcome of removal proceedings, saves the government detention and adjudication resources for other priority aliens, the memo also reads.

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