Assessing Donald Trump’s Migrant Restrictions
January 27 is quite a fateful day depending from what angle an individual has been leaning on. The new US President has just prohibited the people of seven Muslim-dominated nations from entering the United States.
Judging from the glitches of implementing the executive order, such regulation is hounded with a lot of uncertainty. Just a couple of days after Donald Trump signed the restriction directive, adjustments have already been instituted.
A Brooklyn judge has partially deviated from imposing the regulation. Meanwhile, the President's Chief-of-Staff, Reince Priebus, has issued a statement that somewhat alleviated the order.
The White House head has declared that green card holders from the countries covered by the ban can go back to the U.S. In addition, law enforcers at the borders have a flexible authority to impose guidelines which, from their points of view, are deemed necessary.
It should be noted that the current immigration development is not entirely a new thing. American history has a series of events where directives had been implemented to ban a certain few.
For instance, Chinese immigrants have been restricted from landing on US soil in 1882. The Japanese have also been denied entry at one point.
In 1965, Congress has agreed on a long-standing law that provided equal opportunity to all nationalities with regards to entering the US. The Immigration and Nationality Act has cast aside the origins of people wanting to gain entry into the progressive nation.
However, the long-established law is about to be repelled. With around 218 million people to be affected by Washington's recent executive order, not only the US law enforcement units are on their toes. Foreign countries are still trying to sink in the cold dose of reality that Trump has implement.
Over the next 90 days, individuals from seven Muslim countries cannot set foot on US soil. Refugees, meanwhile, will be denied entry for the next 120 days.
Within this context, complications are highly likely to surface. Ann Donnelly, the honorable magistrate from Brooklyn has pointed out that what she did was necessary considering that refugee applications approved by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services cannot be blocked by the government. She has also noted that those granted with immigrant and non-immigrant visas including citizens from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia can legally enter the US.
As airports come to terms with Trump's order, some Democratic congressmen have to intervene as more and more arriving passengers had been detained. Meanwhile, foreign countries like Iran is currently determining what action it will impose to counteract Washington's recent move.
