FAQ: Non-citizen Registration Requirement in Trump Day 1 Government Order

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FAQ: Non-citizen Registration Requirement in Trump Day 1 Executive Order

NILC, Feb. 6, 2025

“In certainly one of his first anti-immigrant Government Orders (EOs), President Trump threatened to make undocumented immigrants “register” with the U.S. authorities or face legal fees or detention and deportation. This EO provision rests on a half-a-century-old regulation and is paying homage to shameful historic examples of race- and nationality-based registry necessities in the US. The supply can be confounding as a result of no common, separate course of at the moment exists for the registration of non-citizens in the US. This FAQ explains the regulation and historical past of immigrant registration within the U.S. and explores what the present EO provision may imply for immigrant communities…”