Washington (AP) – A federal judge allows The Trump Government To continue with a requirement that everyone in the US has to register illegally with the federal government, in a movement that could have far -reaching consequences for immigrants throughout the country.
In a reigning Thursday, Judge Trevor Neil McFadden chose the side of the administration, who had argued that they simply enforce an existing requirement for everyone in the country who was not an American citizen to register with the government.
The requirement will take effect on Friday.
The Ministry of Interior Security announced on 25 February that it was mandatory that all people in the United States register illegally with the federal government and said that those who could not be confronted with fines or prosecution. Not registering registration is considered a crime and people must take registration documents with you or risk prison time and fines.
Registration will be mandatory for everyone aged 14 and older without legal status. People who register must give their fingerprints and address, and parents and guardians of everyone under the age of 14 must ensure that they have registered.
The registration process also applies to Canadians who have been in the US for more than 30 days, such as so -called snow birds that spend winter months in places like Florida.
The federal immigration legislation has long required people who are not American citizens and live in the US, including those here illegally, register with the government. Those laws can be returned to the 1940 Alien Registration Act, which came in the midst of the growing fears for immigrants and political subversives in the early days of the Second World War. The current requirements arise from the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act.
But the requirement that people were illegally enforced in the US register has only been enforced in rare circumstances. Proponents who are against the government even say that it was not used universally since it was first introduced in the mid -1940s.
It was used in a limited way after 11 September 2001, when the registration system of the National Security Entry-Exit required that all non-citizen men aged 16 and older from 25 countries-on-one of them the majority of Arabian or Muslim registration with the US government. The program led to no terrorist convictions, but attracted more than 13,000 people to deportation procedures. It was suspended in 2011 and resolved in 2016.
The Trump government has argued that the registration requirement has always existed and that officials simply enforce it for everyone.
The groups that have been charged say that this registration process is explicit to facilitate the purpose of President Donald Trump to illegally carry out mass deportations of people in the country.
The claimants also say that the government should have completed the more long public notification process before the change causes.
They claim that the register people who work, contribute to the economy and have deep family ties in America in a deep bond: they come forward, register and indicate their location to a government that is intent to perform mass deportations, or will they continue to be charged with the crime of not registering in the shadow and risk?
The government has already asked people who are subject to the registration -requirement to create an account on the website of American citizenship and immigration services.
