illegal immigration

In fact, the phenomenon of illegal immigration became one of the most significant legacies of the Chinese-exclusion era in the United States. Despite the disproportionate time and resources spent by U.S. immigration officials to control Chinese immigration, many Chinese migrated across the borders from Canada and Mexico or used fraudulent…

…led to various approaches to illegal immigration. For example, while Pres. Barack Obama’s administration avoided deporting children who entered the country without documentation, his administration deported some three million individuals without legal status, compared with about two million during the George W. Bush administration. During the administrations of Pres. Donald…

…States were thought to have moved there illegally. Such immigrants are often called unauthorized or undocumented immigrants or aliens.

…swelled largely because of foreign immigrants, many of whom had entered the country illegally. More of those immigrants lived in southern California than in any other region of the United States. A welfare-to-work reform program instituted by national legislation in 1996 reduced caseloads significantly and connected people with social services.…

-Mexico border to prevent illegal immigration from Latin America; and to ban immigration by Muslims. Trump mused about those and other issues in Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again (2015).

…detaining, and deporting as many undocumented immigrants as possible. ICE agents and other federal officers conducted numerous raids on communities and workplaces; they also targeted schools, hospitals, churches, and even immigrant courthouses, where undocumented immigrants were normally permitted to request temporary or permanent residence. Such raids were actively opposed by…

…to the United States, where illegal immigration became a divisive and impassioned political issue. A particularly controversial response came in 2018, when as part of the “zero tolerance” immigration policy of the administration of U.S. Pres. Donald Trump, migrant families were separated, with the parents being held in detention centers…