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In Tandem, newly signed executive decisions that end programs from bidea era, with which hundreds of thousands of migrants were able to step into the country, will probably lead to significantly reduced rivers of newcomers that arose in Georgia communities such as Lawreceville, which showed that the federal data showed themselves as the leading goal for the latest cross-crosses.
An executive lawsuit on the first day of Trump to contain the status status of the birth law of many legal experts as unconstitutional-could correspond to the effect on the second largest group of immigrants in Georgia: Indian.
The executive would not only illegally hold the babies of many mothers who live legally, but temporarily in the country, the US citizenship. This includes H-1B-VISA owners for specialists, of whom over 70% come from India. Due to a decades of waiting list for green cards for Indian immigrants, many have no choice but to stay in temporary visas over a long time.
“I don't think people realize that this would really negatively influence the family immigration process for children who were born here, while their parents are in a very long queue for green cards, said Nisha Karnani, an immigration lawyer in Atlanta and a founding member of the South Asian Bar Association of Georgia.
Under the restriction of citizenship, the children born in the United States would not be considered a US citizen. They would qualify for legal status by their parents, but that would fall for the dignity if they turn 21, and they would then have the prospect of having to leave the country.
Just a few hours after the president signed the arrangement of the birthright on Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union sued before a federal court to block it. And on Tuesday, the lawyers from 22 states and two cities also submitted complaints against the policy.
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“Everyone is afraid of Trump”
Last spring, the Atlanta Journal Constitution Carlos and Gabriela, a young couple from Venezuela, met in a hotel room in McDonough, which was paid for by a local good Samaritan who keeps the family away from the street. They reached the Metro Atlanta after using a smartphone app called CBP name CBP to legally enter the USA from Mexico. They therefore asked to be identified only with a first name in order to avoid the endangerment of their ongoing immigration cases.
The app-based system enabled 1,450 people a day to make an appointment to present themselves at an entry port along the border and to demand asylum.
“The goal of many people who come is to come here before the choice,” Carlos told the AJC in April. “They are worried about the choice. Everyone is afraid of Trump. The fear of every migrant is currently Trump.”
The app was closed hours after the Trump Office and all outstanding appointments were canceled.
The speed at which the app was taken offline “speaks of a coordinated and very well planned efforts,” said Gigi Pedraza, the managing director of the Latino Community Fund Georgia. “Trump has not yet sat in the past four years. His team has studied to become more effective. They have developed a game book and clearly know how to better navigate through the bureaucracy and use the powers he has in the executive department.”
The Trump administration also scrapped a humanitarian probation program that was used under bidges to temporarily enable access to migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela.
The program, which was to relieve the pressure of the southern border, enabled migrants to fly directly to the United States if they could prove that they had a sponsor based in the USA who was ready to support them here. The applicants of the program also had to be subjected to a background check. After approval, migrants were allowed to stay in the country for up to two years, and they qualified for a work permit.
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Since the creation of the program in 2023, more than half a million people have been able to enter the United States directly
Charles Kuck, an immigration lawyer from Atlanta, estimates that tens of thousands of such migrants have settled in Georgia. “I probably met 500 of them and I'm just an immigration lawyer,” he said.
Immigrants who currently keep their legal status in Georgia as part of the probation program until their probation period expires. As soon as your two years have expired, you will be deported if you have not applied for a more permanent type of immigration relief like asylum during your time. Before the end of his presidency, the Biden administration announced that it would not extend the status of probation.
“You should plan your return because there is no doubt that (the government) your addresses that your sponsors' addresses have,” said Kuck. “This is like picking up butterflies with a butterfly net in a butterfly garden. You can circle these people relatively quickly if they wanted. So these people have to be just prepared.”
Also one of the most important changes that affect immigrants in Georgia is the expansion of a policy called “accelerated distance”, the people who are unlawful in the country into an streamlined and accelerated distance process.
“Essentially, people are only removed. They have no proper procedure. You have no chance of going to a judge and giving your case why you should stay,” said Jennifer Hamamoto, an immigration lawyer and managing director of immigration at Latin American Association, a non -profit main business on the Buford Highway.
Under bidges, the federal immigration officials were only allowed to use an accelerated removal of non -authorized immigrants who were held within 100 miles of an international border and who were less than two weeks in the country. The Sped-up deportations now apply to non-authorized immigrants in the United States, which have been present in the country for less than two years.
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In order to avoid that they are accelerated, immigrants should always carry documents with them without a lawful status – rental contracts, rental agreements, bank statements, pension calculations and more -, explain that they live in the USA for more than two years.
In another implementation regulation, Trump signaled his intention to introduce a travel ban for countries in which travelers are considered “poor”. Although details on the travel ban have not yet arisen, Karnani already says about the fear that they could not return to the country.
“I get a number of texts and e -mails from customers who have trips and they have visa,” said Karnani. “So we still go through all (the announced changes of guidelines) to give you a travel and tell you that I can only wait until I can look because everyone is so different. And that is the mantra for all lawyers: 'Do not let the United States check without me.'
“There are big concern about international trips.”
