Summary
The Trump administration has announced a new registry for undocumented immigrants, requiring them to self-report, provide fingerprints, and list their addresses.
Those who fail to comply could face fines or prosecution under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
The move aligns with the administration’s broader crackdown on illegal immigration and mass deportation plans.
Critics, including the National Immigration Law Center, warn the registry could be used to target individuals for deportation, drawing parallels to past government efforts to register noncitizens for national security purposes.
Hmm, I wonder what else started out as a registry…something that went down in history not long after the great depression.
It’s a safe bet IBM will jump at the chance to manage this one too.
Oh the federal government has been testing a registry for years now. This isn’t new. We have a sex offender registry and next we’re going to have an immigrant registry.
But you did not speak up, because you were not a sex offender.
Someone should write a poem about this …
We’ve had this law since World War 2. It hasn’t been used since and not for a lack of anti-immigrant sentiment. I want reporters to do their fucking job and report why the people who did things like Operation Wetback (the actual name, not my exaggeration) didn’t see fit to do this.
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Doing AP’s job for them, I found the punishment. It’s 8 USC 1306 and yeah we can see why it hasn’t been used before. Six months in jail or 1,000 dollars fine for willfully failing to register. For which they essentially have to prove a thought crime, (you knew and did not register). Failure to update an existing registration is simply removal.
So the law hasn’t been used because we already have the authority to remove unregistered immigrants and paying for their short jail stay is a ridiculous mismanagement of money.
I don’t know why, but your post response gave me this visual imagery of a man in a suit entering names on a list using an old-fashioned typewriter…