COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) --Republicans across the country campaigned on immigration and border issues and President Donald Trump is putting promises to paper in a slew of executive orders.
“The president is attempting to rewrite more than 125 years of citizenship law,” immigration law expert and professor at Ohio State Cesar Garcia Hernandez said.
One of President Trump’s executive orders, to end birthright citizenship, is already held up in the courts. Birthright citizenship is part of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, and it allows anyone born here to be a citizen, even if their mother is not.
If the federal judge decides to allow it to go into effect, it is scheduled for February 19th. Even then, Hernandez said it will not be easy to enforce.
“The federal government has absolutely nothing to do with birth certificates,” he said. “That is entirely up to the states and that means there are fifty different sets of procedures, fifty different sets of requirements.”
He said if the burden does not fall on the states, it could fall on the State Department, which issues social security cards and passports.
“Are they going to start asking for proof of citizenship and immigration status of the parents before giving out a passport or a Social Security card or Social Security number to a newborn child,” Hernandez said.
Trump is also calling for the quote “expedited removal,” of undocumented immigrants who have crossed the border within the last two years. This allows court precedents to be skipped.
Landlord sued after tenants left without heatSenator Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) said several times throughout his campaign, and after the election, he thinks mass deportation is possible.
“If it's feasible to get 13 million people into the country, it's feasible to get 13 million people out of the country,” Moreno said in November.
Moreno just introduced a bill to “amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to modify the eligibility requirements for asylum.” ( www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/200/text?s=1&r=1) The legislation he proposed would do four key things:
Require asylum applicants to file their request for asylum at legal ports of entry only. Prohibit the parole or release of asylum applicants into the United States. Prohibit applicants from claiming asylum again in the future after a previous application has been rejected. Prohibit any migrant caught in the United States illegally from ever claiming asylum in the future."If you want to live in this country, you have to respect our laws, and that starts at our borders,” Moreno said in a statement after introducing the bill.
Governor Mike DeWine agreed something has to be done about immigration policy by the federal government, but he said it can only happen once things “get settled down at the southern border.” He said he is confident Trump can accomplish that.
“We have had a long tradition in this country going back decades for my entire life of letting people into this country who want to work and also people who were fleeing a country that was very dangerous to them or they were being politically or religiously oppressed,” DeWine said. “It should be a bipartisan discussion where we can actually get down to who should come into the United States and who do we really want here.”
DeWine, though, warns against ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian migrants who are living in Ohio. Right now, there is a large population in Springfield ( www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/ohio-statehouse-leaders-address-unfounded-springfield-claims/), and DeWine said their sudden removal would hurt their economy.
“They're helping to drive the economy of Springfield,” DeWine said. “They were being hired because there were no other people to fill those jobs. So that is the stark reality of this.”
TPS for Haitian migrants is set to expire in February 2026. Moreno said that gives businesses ample time to adjust.
“The companies who are employing them need to make plans as they should have when they hired them in the first place, knowing that their TPS will only last till February of 26,” Moreno said. “It absolutely doesn't crush the economy. What it does do is it provides opportunities for the Ohioans that aren't employed today, who are not in the workforce today.”
One of Trump’s orders directs a review of Temporary Protected Status designated by the Biden administration. However, it is not always easy to put an end to TPS.
“When it comes to Haiti, the Trump administration tried to end TPS the first time around. They failed for the same reason that TPS can only be granted to citizens of countries where the conditions are so dangerous that it would be unsafe to send people back to those,” Hernandez said. “For the federal government to end that TPS, they also need to show that the conditions in that country have changed sufficiently so that it is no longer unsafe.”
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