Trump’s directing of immigrants with legal status is removed from rules

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At the end of last month, Kevin Zaldaña Ramírez was detained by immigration and execution officers from the Houston site, where he worked.

Zaldaña, 20 years old, came to the US in 2018, fled the recruitment of bands in El Salvador. He has legal protection against deportation under special status of immigrant minors, who help young people under the age of 18 running away from abuse or neglect. Although Zaldaña has not yet requested permanent residence, he has a legal basis for being in the country and has held a valid work permit. According to his mother, the arrest of the officers He said that his case number was “false”, And he stays in arrest in Texas, while she advocates for her freedom, Houston Landing informed.

“I ask the president to have mercy,” Yolanda said at a press conference last week. “And to catch people who are truly criminals, but not innocent people as my son.”

Zaldaña’s case is one of some who have recently worried experts in immigration legislation, while the Trump administration avoids long -term application rules. Similarly, in Washington, DC, this week, a Venezuelan couple was arrested and charged with illegal entry for crime, More than two years after their arrival at the US south border.

While the federal law allows to submit charges of illegal entry up to five years After restraint, usually only days or weeks later. The couple’s lawyers told The Los Angeles Times that it is the first time they saw immigrants accused of illegal entry, long after the fact. According to the work, the couple both have asylum claims, as well as temporarily protected status – although the Trump administration has revoked these protection for Venezuelians. in a set move to enter into effect next month.

The aggressive application of the application begins to be in numbers. According to an analysis published by The Guardian on Thursday, American officials have arrested several immigrants in the first 22 days of February than in any month of the last seven years.

Deportations, on the other hand, are down compared to the same period last yearBut these numbers may be misleading because Border meetings have dropped until the minimum of decades. Most deportations that took place at this time last year involved quickly Returning people detained to the border in Mexico. Location and deportation then people from cities and cities throughout the country It is more complicatedand requires more time and resources.

High arrest rate and slow deportation pace swollen numbers Centers of detention of immigration to capacityAccording to the Department of Internal Security, and many are becoming overcrowded. The detainees told The News Outlet Capital & Main that this had Smaller meals and delays in medical care.

“It worsens and will worsen. It’s horrible since Trump came, “Ledys Isa told The Outlet in Spanish. “I bring people, bring people and bring people.”

It is assumed that private private prisons companies providing the vast majority of the nation’s immigration Clamoring for new contracts To open multiple beds. The Trump administration also considers the retention of immigrants on a military bases, according to several reports. Writing on Tuesday in Lawfare, law teacher Chris Mirasola concluded that there is a The narrow but viable legal path for this to happen.

Mahmoud Khalil, a 30 -year -old green book holder who was detained last week and transferred from New York to a unit in Louisiana, is one of Most high profile immigration detainees in arrest. President Trump said in Social Media this week Related to its involvement in pro-palestinian protests at Colombia University, where he obtained a master’s degree last year.

Khalil’s legal team has described his arrest – as a permanent legal resident – as unprecedented, while some Legal bloggers and reporter They have placed it in a greater context of what they describe as the political application that concerns pro-palestinian activists. The immigration researcher and university professor of Syracuse, Austin Kocher, explained this week that Both agreements are actually correct.

On the one hand, “the holders of green books and even American citizens are arrested and detained by the immigration authorities more often than they are aware of most people” and a series of these arrests have involved Palestinian activists. On the other hand, writes Kocher, the use of the “specific law that could allow the US to deport Mahmoud is extraordinarily rare in recent history.”

The law to which Kocher refers is an element of the law on immigration and nationality, which was Last used in 1995According to The New York Times. The Trump administration has supported the provisions Allows the Secretary of State to deport permanent legal residents If it represents a threat to national security. Secretary of State Marco Rubio shared an internal security statement that claimed that Khalil has met these criteria By “led activities lined up in Hamas” during the protests. White house quoted the unique “intelligence” To defend the request, the New York Post reported.

Some legal scientists have claimed that this law has been canceled As unconstitutional in 1996 by a federal district court, after the Clinton administration targeted a Mexican citizen for deportation. This decision was subsequently reversed by a court of appeal for procedural reasons, without weighing on the merits of the case.

In a twist of irony, the judge behind this The decision of the district court It was Maryanne Trump Barry – the older sister of the president.

“The problem,” Barry wrote, “is whether an alien in this country can legally, only because it is here, to restrict its freedom and be forced to be forced into a specific country, at the unlimited discretion of the Secretary of State and without any significant occasion to be heard. The answer is a “no” sound.

Late Thursday, Khalil’s lawyers filed a petition for its immediate release.