Trump's Administration Plans to Expand Categories of Immigrants

The US President Donald Trump's administration plans to issue directives to immigration officials to greatly expand the categories of immigrants who are targeted to be deported from the country.
Drafts of two memos revealed that under these directives, hundreds of thousands of people would face expedited removal proceedings, including those that had not been prioritised for deportation under former President Barack Obama.
Sources familiar with the plans said that the documents have been approved by Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, but are under final review by the White House.
The documents are expected to be released to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) early next week.
The sources added that these memos are guidance to instruct officials in the field to implement the two executive orders signed by Trump on January 25 intended to deter future migration and drive out more illegal migrants from the United States.
One of the memos instructs ICE officials to ignore Obama's memos on immigration priorities that targeted only new arrivals and convicted criminal migrants for deportation. Migrants who have been charged with crimes but not convicted would be prioritised for deportation.
The guidance also gives ICE officials a wide discretion to decide who to deport and consider anyone in the US illegally to be deported.
The second memo instructs CBP officers to crack down on illegal migration at the border by holding migrants in detention until a determination in their case is made, the sources said, adding that the memos were scheduled to be distributed on Friday but the White House made a last-minute request to review them. It is not known whether the White House may alter the guidance. 

Source: QNA