hi this is latoya McBean USA immigration
attorney at the law office of latoya
mcbean Wow we have had quite the week in
the world of immigration first you need
to understand that the president has the
power to do what he has done okay the
president's executive power is at its
zenith at the border when it comes on to
national security the president has
broad powers to do the things that he
has done this past week so that's the
first thing you need to understand now
the executive orders have created a lot
of confusion
there's hysteria there's a lot of fear
and there's just people are genuinely
concerned about who we are as a country
what our core values are and certainly
where in the world are we headed and so
let's talk a little bit about what's in
these executive orders and what they
actually mean for you the first thing
that we saw coming out of these
executive orders is that the president
still intends on building a wall along
the us-mexico border we also saw that
the Department of Homeland Security
plans on adding 5,000 additional border
agents and 10,000 additional immigration
officers and so essentially what this
means is that they're adding capacity so
that they can continue to enforce the
laws and continue to crack down on those
who they intend on cracking down on we
also saw that the government is ending
the practice of detaining people at the
border temporarily and then releasing
them on US soil people who are here on
the basis of asylum they are claiming
that they've been persecuted back home
or they fear a future persecution back
home and so we will now turn those
people away including children who
appear at the border unaccompanied okay
we also saw that we will cut off or
there these are threats
that the federal government will cut off
federal funding to cities that do not
cooperate with respect to immigration
enforcement practices now this is my
biggest concern the definition of
criminal aliens under the executive
order so the definition of criminal
aliens is incredibly broad it includes
of course people who are convicted of
any criminal offense people who are
charged with any criminal offense people
who have committed willful who people
who have engaged in fraud or willful
misrepresentation in connection with a
document or an application before the US
government so essentially we're talking
about document fraud here people who
have abused their receipt of a public
benefit people who have not committed
any crimes but who the immigration
officer and his best judgment thinks
poses a security a national security or
a public safety risk so this is
concerning because this gives the
immigration officer broad discretion to
determine who should be deported they on
the basis of you know the fact that they
pose a security risk to our country even
though they have not committed any crime
very very concerning okay then we also
heard or saw from the executive orders
that there's going to be more data
sharing arrest data and fingerprint data
sharing among local law local
authorities and immigration federal
immigration agency okay now on Friday
our President signed close to 5 o'clock
p.m. on Friday significant executive
order that has created protests at
airports in various cities ok and here's
the reason why
the executive order essentially bans the
entry of refugees
come in from okay so let me take this in
order and let's just dissect this a bit
so the first thing that it does is it
stops ich we stop issuing visas to for
90 days to people who are coming from
Iraq through Syria Iran Sudan Somalia
Yemen and Libya okay so this is a 90-day
ban as it relates to visa issuance so
the problem with this as we saw on
Saturday is that there has been a Mis
application of the law whereby people
who are from these countries who have
green cards they were detained at the
airport and in some cases they were
trying to deport these people and so the
ACLU filed a lawsuit a successful
injunction temporary injunction on
Saturday that would prevent the
deportation of these people and so they
were successful in at least this aspect
of the executive order this
misapplication of the executive order
however there there is still a ban on
Syrian refugees indefinitely there's
also still a ban on everyone else non
Syrian refugees for four months because
the US government is suspending the
State Department's refugee assistance
program and so once the program is back
up we will prioritize people based on
religious persecution and we will only
admit we will admit 50,000 people rather
than 110,000 people which is the bar
that had been set under the Obama
administration
we will also implement new screening
protocols we will also suspend the visa
interview waiver program and until these
are the biggest biggest points from
these executive orders and these are
they mean something they were swept and
we are feeling the impact of these
orders already and it's only Sunday okay
so
the point is get information a close
attention to what's being said in the
news do you read and do your homework
stay close to me on Facebook I will try
my best to update you as quickly as I
can
and as the information comes to me and
comes to everyone else as you know
things are unfolded almost on a daily
basis and there's still a lot of
uncertainty there is still a lot of
chaos at the airport information is not
trickling down from DC in a way that
really makes sense at the airport and so
we're still send in with those who are
some people who are still being detained
or being deported things are still very
chaotic so we will keep a close watch on
what's going on thank you for watching
this video and stay tuned for more
information