{"id":593767,"date":"2018-06-19T15:48:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T21:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=593767"},"modified":"2018-06-20T08:58:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T14:58:10","slug":"how-the-u-s-has-stepped-up-immigration-enforcement-under-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/06\/how-the-u-s-has-stepped-up-immigration-enforcement-under-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"How the U.S. has stepped up immigration enforcement under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/p>

ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents arresting suspects during a raid.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Trump administration hasn\u2019t just fired up the anti-immigration rhetoric; it has changed the system of enforcement in myriad ways. Specific actions taken within U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) — which processes visa and legal residency applications — and the government\u2019s enforcement arm, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, have drastically changed the landscape for undocumented and mixed-status immigrant families.<\/p>\n

Among the changes:<\/p>\n

Prosecutorial discretion is gone.<\/b> Under the Obama administration, immigration authorities were instructed to target the \u201cworst of the worst.\u201d ICE focused on arresting unauthorized immigrants who had committed additional crimes. Immigrants who had committed no crime other than crossing the border without permission were not targeted. The Trump administration has ended this practice, and nearly all immigrants living in the United States without permission are at risk of removal.<\/p>\n