How Trump's 'Papers Please' Rule Exposes MAGA's Moral Vacuum
On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a bulletin headed “Alien Registration Requirement” that sounds less like America than some benighted nation where teens can be stopped in the street with the request: “Papers, please.”
The missive cited Section 262 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which “clearly says that all aliens must be registered and fingerprinted within 30 days of their 14th birthday,” according to the bulletin.
It adds, “Failure to comply will result in criminal and civil penalties, up to and including misdemeanor prosecution and the payment of fines.”
That means the teen will have committed a crime. And in the Trumpian view, anybody who commits crime is a criminal—with exceptions for President Trump himself and the Jan. 6 rioters.
Any “alien child” under 14 should have already been registered by their parents—but even that won’t save them.
“Previously registered alien children must apply to re-register and to be fingerprinted,” the bulletin says.
Any parents who have failed to register an alien child are also guilty of a crime.
“It shall be the duty of every parent or legal guardian of any alien now or hereafter in the United States, who is less than fourteen years of age … to apply for the registration” within a month of arrival in the United States,” the applicable law says.
That applies even to children who have already been registered by their parents.
Once an alien child has been registered and fingerprinted, DHS will issue him or her a document it calls “evidence of registration.”
“Aliens over the age of 18 must carry and keep [it] in their possession at all times,” the bulletin says.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-utter-ridiculousness-of-trumps-new-ice-rule-exposed/
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