Austin, (EFE) .- The new fiscal and budgetary law approved this Thursday by the United States Congress will inject billions of dollars to President Donald Trump’s antimigration project.
The republican majority in both cameras supported a greater expense of the government in the field of security agencies, which will be allocated, by broad margin, to the management of immigration.
The critical voices of this legislation have described the spending of “unpublished” and warn that it will accelerate the mass deportation agenda of the administration, with “chaotic” consequences for the US migrant population. UU. And the economy of the country.
The vote on Thursday in the House of Representatives gave the last approval to the project, which will now pass to the Trump desktop, who plans to sign it in an act at the White House this Friday, July 4, the US Day of Independence.
More migration agents and border wall
With an expense of almost 170,000 million dollars in four years, the government will increase the number of migration agents – with about 20,000 new positions – will build new detention centers for migrants and invest in surveillance technologies, including artificial intelligence.
Specifically, the law includes more than 46.5 billion for the construction of the border wall and more than 45,000 million destined to the detention of migrants, including the construction and maintenance of the centers and the transport of deportees.
To increase the arrests and fill these centers, the Government plans to hire more than 20,000 new agents for the immigration and customs control service (ICE) and for the Office of Customs and Border Protection (CBP, in English).
The conservative Cato laboratory already predicts that, once this law is entered into force, the number of people locked in detention centers for migrants will quadruplica: it will go from 50,000 to more than 200,000 throughout the country.
This drastic increase in arrests, said the director of the American Immigration Council (AIC), Nancy Gupta, in a report, will undermine public security and create chaos in different communities throughout the country.
The AIC estimates that the new budget can translate into about 116,000 daily arrests of migrants and people who do not have American citizenship.
This escalation in the expulsion of people and the pressure on communities would also bring negative consequences for the country’s economy, according to an analysis of the Economic Policy Institute.
If the government achieves its goal of deporting one million people per year, some 6 million people could lose their jobs, including 3.3 million migrants and 2.6 million workers born in the US. UU., According to this report.
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Increased costs of migratory and humanitarian procedures
The law also seeks to increase the costs of some migratory procedures and, for the first time, an amount of 100 dollars will be charged to request asylum, a status designed to protect people fleeing from political, religious, social or racial persecution in their countries.
The cost for requesting a work permit will be 550 dollars, and this will only have a validity of six months. In addition, 100 dollars will be charged annually to those who have a pending asylum application.
To appeal a decision of a migration judge will cost $ 900 (before 110), and the cost of requesting a temporary protection status (TPS) will also be raised.
Remittance taxes and loss of tax benefits
The law creates a new tax that will directly affect the economy of migrants in the US: a 1 % tax at remittances sent abroad.
The United States is the world’s remittance broadcasting country, according to World Bank data, with more than 85.8 billion dollars sent in 2023, according to the Migration Policy Institute Center.
The law also includes measures that directly affect migrants, restricting their already limited access to tax benefits.
Families in which one of the parents is undocumented or does not have a social security number will not be able to access the Fiscal Credit Program for children, which reduces the amount of taxes to be paid.
In turn, federal funds of the Medicad program for states that offer health services to migrants without legal status, and it will be prohibited that some migrants with legal status – including those who have work visas or TPS – can access health insurance with reduced costs.
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