Trump’s new agency: Victims of Immigration Crime Enforcement

US President Donald Trump is reportedly considering the introduction of an immigration bill that would eventually provide legal status for undocumented immigrants living in America.

“The time is right for an immigration bill as long as there is compromise on both sides”, Trump said in a private luncheon among news anchors. Last week, on Trump’s order, the Department of Home and Security already issued new policies that expanded the types of immigrants targeted for deportation.

Trump insisted that “bad” immigrants such as drug dealers and gang members were literally being taken out of the country as he spoke.

It appears that as the number of illegal immigrants goes up, violent crime goes down and goes down a lot.

Collins, who supported Trump during the 2016 presidential election, said the President’s apparent interest in compromising on immigration is not a policy shift.

It was the moment when Trump announced his plans to create a new office in the Department of Homeland Security dedicated specifically to helping the victims of crimes committed by illegal immigrants.

If Trump calls for immigration reform, he could face opposition not only from his core supporters but also allies inside the White House. U.S. Sentencing Commission data shows homicides are a small percentage of the crimes committed by noncitizens, whether they are in the United States illegally or not.

This, from a president who just three weeks ago deported Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, a 35-year-old Mesa mother who was brought to this country illegally when she was 14 years old.

Which is to say Trump has never outright opposed immigration reform, but exactly what he envisions has never been clear.

Potential immigrants that wish to come to the USA must meet all immigration laws, pledge allegiance to America’s constitutional framework and assimilate into American culture.

He’s telegraphing that immigrants are risky, they are criminals, such awful criminals that we need to create a special federal office to help their victims.

In 2016, a study in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology suggested that communities recording significant increases in immigration actually saw reductions in crime, compared to areas with less immigration.

“If, however, Trump’s goal is stigmatizing a vulnerable class of people”, Beinart writes, “then publicizing their crimes-and their crimes alone-makes sense”.