Here's How Trump's Immigration Orders Are Going To Be Enforced

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The Department of Homeland Security released two memos Tuesday that expound on President Donald Trump’s executive orders concerning border security and immigration enforcement that call for stricter enforcement of immigration laws and call for the hiring of more personnel to enforce those laws.

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly's two memos to the heads of various agencies sets into motion sweeping new guidelines that affect undocumented immigrants in the US.

Here are a few of the most notable directives:

— Hiring: The memos calls for the hiring of an additional 5,000 Border Patrol agents and 10,000 "officers and agents" for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

— Catch-and-release: Unofficially known as "catch-and-release," the DHS memo seeks to end the practice of granting an undocumented immigrant parole while they await court proceedings. The memo states detention during this time is preferred, potentially resulting in a large increase in the number of people detained at facilities around the country. "Such policies, collectively referred to as 'catch-and-release,' shall end," the memo reads.

— Expanded expedited removal proceedings: The memos expands the use of "expedited removal" of any undocumented immigrant who cannot prove "to the satisfaction of an immigration officer, that they have been continuously physically present in the United States for the two-year period." Prior to this, such a removal was only allowed in circumstances where undocumented immigrants were "encountered within 100 air miles of the border and 14 days of entry."

— Border Wall Construction: One memo calls for the CBP to "immediately begin planning, design, construction and maintenance of a wall" along the souther US border with Mexico.

— Asylum Seekers: Asylum officers, when establishing the "credible fear" claim of the asylee, can now "consider the statements of the alien and determine the credibility of the alien's statements made in support of his or her claim and shall consider other facts known to the officer."

— Unaccompanied Minors: The directives also seeks to change the classification of "unaccompanied alien child" protections due to what the DHS calls an "exploitation of that policy led to abuses" when the minors were reunited with undocumented immigrants already in the US.

Notably absent from these memos are any changes to former President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy for undocumented immigrants (also known as DREAMers) who came into the US as a child to defer deportation, among other protections.

In a statement, Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said “These memos confirm that the Trump administration is willing to trample on due process, human decency, the well-being of our communities, and even protections for vulnerable children, in pursuit of a hyper-aggressive mass deportation policy." Jadwat added that, "President Trump does not have the last word here — the courts and the public will not allow this un-American dream to become reality.”

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