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3 lakh Indian-Americans to get affected due to Trump’s sweeping orders on immigration rules

Feb 22, 2017, 13:34 IST
Around three lakh Indian-Americans are going to get affected as US President Donald Trump is planning to toughen the immigration rules.
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Trump plans to increase immigration enforcement, which will risk 11 million undocumented immigrants.

"The Department no longer will exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement. Department personnel have full authority to arrest or apprehend an alien whom an immigration officer has probable cause to believe is in violation of the immigration laws," the Department of Homeland Security said in an enforcement memo.

According to the memo, the DHS Secretary has the authority to apply expedited removal provisions to aliens who have not been admitted or paroled into the US, who are inadmissible, and who have not been continuously physically present in the US for the two-year period immediately prior to the determination of their inadmissibility, so that such aliens are immediately removed unless the alien is an unaccompanied minor, intends to apply for asylum or has a fear of persecution or torture in their home country, or claims to have lawful immigration status.
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