The September 18 @realdonaldtrump post was not part of propaganda, it was the enunciation of a policy for the Southern border that could be seen as a revitalized “zero tolerance” action.

The message reads: NO MORE… No more asylum fraud, no more catch and release, NO MORE ILLEGAL ENTRY IN THE UNITED STATES.

Immediate deportation is the destiny of all those who assume the adventure of entering the United States through the Southern border, a decision that seeks to demoralize immigrants because starting next week they will have no possibilities of staying in the country.

 Kevin McAleenan, the U.S. Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, was very emphatic on this point. He announced that “with some humanitarian and medical exceptions, DHS will no longer be releasing family units from Border Patrol Stations into the interior” of the country.

Authorities define family units or families as individuals accompanied by a minor, parent or legal guardian.

The official pointed out that this seeks to mitigate the “legal loopholes” that act as a “pull and push factors” for undocumented families crossing the border, expressed a statement from his office that picked up parts of the speech of the Acting Secretary at the Council of Foreign Relations.

Specifically, the border protocol established lon ago as a standard procedure that undocumented families detained by the Border Patrol on U.S. soil after crossing the Southern border without papers be released to report to authorities for asylum.

According to the DHS statement, if migrant family units do not claim fear of return, they will be quickly returned to their country of origin.

If they do claim fear of returning, they will be generally be returned to Mexico according to the Migrant Protection (MPP).

The U.S. MPP policy, better known as “Remain in Mexico,” allows the United States to return to the neighboring country those undocumented immigrants who arrive at the border and seek asylum (no matter where they come from) to wait there for court dates in the U.S. to pursue their claims for protection, a process that can take years.

According to DHS, detentions on the Mexican border “have hit record levels this year”.

On September 9, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) reported that 50,693 people were detained at the border with Mexico in August compared to 71,982 last July.

 Of this total, 25,057 were family members, while the arrests of single adults amounted to 21,907 in August and those of unaccompanied minors to 3,729.

In May, the total number of people arrested and non-admitted persons was 144,255, which was higher than the monthly statistics for the last five years. In that month, 84,490 families were detained.

Translated by: José Espinoza

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This declaration grants the United States president a temporarily special power to face a crisis. Trump will have to justify that the arrival of undocumented immigrants and the entry of drugs through the Mexican border require urgent and extraordinary measures.

“Sadly we´ll be sued, and sadly it will go through a process, and happily we´ll win” he said a little resigned to a judicialization of this procedure.

Trump said he would sign the decree as soon as the press conference ended, and assured that he expects the Democratic opposition to “sue” him to block the measure, although he predicted that he will win the judicial battle.

Under the national emergency, Trump may divert funds from other budget items already authorized by Congress and direct them to his border project.

At a press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House, the president stressed that the money that will add $8 billion to the construction of the wall on the Mexican border, aims to stop the drugs, gangs and human trafficking “invasion” to the United States and hence the importance of the Executive Order that he is about to sign.

The idea is to combine money from the approved Congress budget with the item authorized by the emergency declaration. He will use the $1.375 billion that the Capitol approved to cover 55 miles (about 88.5 kilometers) of barriers on the wide southwestern border and, thanks to the state of national emergency, he will have various budget items to finance the rest of the construction of the US-Mexico wall.

The White House announced on Friday its intention to raise about $8 billion for the construction of the wall. With the national emergency $6.6 billion will be added to the $1. 375 billion approved by Congress.

To sum up, the Administration would transfer $6 billion from the Pentagon ($2.5 billion from counternarcotic programs and $3. 5 billion budgeted for military construction projects) and the remaining $600 million would come from the Treasury drug confiscations.

Trumps also thank Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for his help with the undocumented immigrants’ caravan that have been entering to the United States from Central America, crossing Mexican territory.

The Head of State also reiterated that he would like to sign substantial immigration reform, but only made reference to his priorities – such as ending the process by which permanent residents in the United States can help their relatives to emigrate to the country – and not to a possible regularization of the undocumented.

Translated by: José Espinoza

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