President Donald Trump didn’t come up with the idea of requiring illegal aliens to register. He’s simply enforcing the law which is already on the books. Previous administrations made it a policy of ignoring any laws they weren’t in total agreement with. Like the ones for shoplifting, carjacking and armed robbery. Those days are over.
Register with the feds
According to immigration officials of the Trump administration, “anyone living in the U.S. illegally will soon have to register with the federal government.” Those who don’t face “fines, imprisonment or both.”
It’s mandatory for “everyone 14 and older who doesn’t have legal status.” Those under that age must be registered by their parents.
On Tuesday, February 25, Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a statement spelling out the requirements handed down by the Department of Homeland Security.
“Each person must register and provide their fingerprints and address.” Migrants are going frantic trying to figure out what to do because either way, they’re in a jam.
If they go ahead and register, Border Czar Tom Homan knows exactly where to pick them up for deportation. If they don’t comply, when Homan does find them, they’ll be hit with fines and jail time, then be deported.
The general idea that President Trump is trying to get across to them is that it’s much simpler to leave the country voluntarily before they’re rounded up and herded out.
Since 1940
The idea isn’t a new one issued by executive order. “Federal immigration law has long required that people living illegally in the U.S. register with the government.” The concept started with “the Alien Registration Act of 1940.”
Back then, officials were concerned about “political subversives in the early days of World War II.” Now we’re worried about Islamic terrorists in the early days of World War III.
The current version of the requirements were crafted in “the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.” The concept was expanded after the September 11, 2001 terror attack on the World Trade Center.
“The National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, required all non-citizen males age 16 or older from 25 countries – all but one of them majority Arab or Muslim – to register with the U.S. government.”
Even though it’s on the books, nobody paid any attention to it. “The Trump administration will enforce all our immigration laws – we will not pick and choose which laws we will enforce.”
It’s in your best interest to go ahead and register if you’re one of those affected. “No alien will have an excuse for failure to comply with this law.“
