In his second administration, barely a week, US President Donald Trump has designed several of his populist election promises, including the Paris Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO), named and recognized the Gulf of Mexico, to get out of the World Health Organization (WHO) Is included. Scrap only two gender and DEI policies. But this is his anti -immigration and exile orders that have the most visible effect on the streets.
Trump and his choice have promoted social concerns and aired them against ‘others’ – often minority and immigrants. The public nature of the use of military aircraft for exile and the arrest of migrants frames them as a legitimate security threat to American society. Trump has called an anti -immigration and exile to protect America from ‘invasion’. Cabinet members as well as other Republican leaders have not reduced using inhuman language, and Trump has further complemented these tricks with direct diplomatic pressure on source countries.
The move was clearly a public place between Flashpoint Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who initially refused to take into exile. However, Potus turned the Colombian government into accepting migrants with punitive tariffs.
Although disruptive, these steps are the continuity of policies that Trump started in his first term. While millions of migrants and refugees move towards uncertainty due to these executive orders, whether it will have any adequate impact on international politics, it is a matter of debate.
Continuation from Trump 1.0 to 2.0
Even in Trump’s first term (2017-2021), immigration was one of the top agendas in its campaign. Between 2017-2021, Trump introduced strict veating mechanisms, imposed a racist travel restriction and built the ‘The Wall’ with his southern border.
Four years forward, in a hurry of executive orders, the new Trump administration seems to carry forward those policies. The US refugee entry program has been suspended indefinitely, causing over 20,000 refugees to be stranded. In addition, thousands of American troops have been re-prepared for ‘seal seals’ after an executive order declared an emergency on the US-Maxico border. Mobile application, CPB One, which regulated the entry of migrants, has also been closed.
Trump has cut funds for agencies responsible for assisting the integration of refugees in the society. In a step similar to the ‘Muslim ban’, Trump has worked to identify countries to impose agencies to impose complete or partial immigration restrictions. He has also strengthened the powers of immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) to arrest and take into custody of ‘illegal’ migrants.
At home, these tricks are being celebrated. Homeland Security proudly said on X, “.. We have fulfilled the promise of President Trump’s promise to arrest and existing violent criminals from American people”. Trump and his colleagues, the new secretary of the Homeland Security, Christie NoM has made a conscious effort to label these efforts, as “dirtbags” or “illegal” or “illegal” and “criminal” migrants, We “threaten” security.
There are still some ambiguity on the number of people that will actually be deported in the coming months – by 28 January, the Trump administration had already deported some 7,300 people. Mexico and other South and Central American states are establishing shelters and camps to host the return of migrants and refugees. But uncertainty leads those people and migrant people ahead of them.
Implications for diaspora?
While the Indian American tech boom and H -1B have been the largest beneficiaries of the visa regime, there is also a possibility of transform into rules that control naturalization and family visas.
India is one of the biggest sources of unspecified migration in the US. Trump has already discussed the issue of immigration on a call with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, after which Trump said that India will “do the right thing”. Mea, according to reports, already planned to accept around 18,000 unspecified migrants.
This order – currently stuck in court – people with temporary visas are also going to increase the concerns of young migrant families to deprive children born in America. In addition, more than a million Indians in the US are waiting for their green cards. Policy changes can expand the waiting period for many of these applicants.
While there has been a significant change within the Indian American community towards the Republican under Trump, the diaspora and its politics are very complex to put in a box. Anti -immigration drives are obliged to impress them only beyond exile. Such an anti-immigrant approach can take the form of accidental and institutional racism in day to day life.
Emolution from India has been at an all -time high. Already, policy changes in countries such as United Kingdom and Australia aim to limit immigration, cause concern. However, these issues cannot affect India’s bilateral relations with the US to a great extent. That relationship rests more on questions on trade and tariffs; In the word last Trump, it was an American pressure to dial India’s diplomatic association with Iran with complex things.
It is likely that the coming four years will see a similar scene. In any case, the systemic pressure to include China will ensure that India and the US strengthened relations in Indo-Pacific through more defense and technical coordination.
No Trumpian trend
While Trump’s crack on migration is going to rub the wings of sources like India, Mexico and others, it will not affect sufficient strategic alignment. In addition, it is important to note that exile is not a unique policy for Trump. In fact, the data of the migrants exempted in the first Trump administration is comparable to the tenure of the biden, and in fact, the first Obama is less than the administration. While Trump deported 3.13 million people in his first term, the number of people sent back under Obama was 3.16 million. Under Biden, this figure shocked 4.44 million in 2021 and 2022.
Immigration regime has always been a political tool to facilitate the movement of some people, which visits the securization of others. This is the most visible in parole provision, which recently legalized the entry and function of the people of Afghanistan and Ukraine, and first selected South American nations. Trump has also stopped this Avenue for this time. Therefore, it is not the number, but sets Trump separate from his predecessors with populist fashion and legal changes.
Rejection of globalization
The flexibility of far-flung and ethnic-spulism around the world reflects the pan-surrender rejection of the agenda of globalization. The West needs labor and not necessarily the workers. These trends are obliged to leave the weakest people at risk. Especially from the global South, people are going to be dynamics, examined and regulated, but they will not unfortunately affect state-to-state relations. The United States is still the biggest bullying in global politics. As the case of Colombia proves to be, the states will only stand for their people’s rights until their comprehensive economic and security interests are threatened.
(Chetan Rana is currently a senior editor, 9Dashline, and PhD candidates at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His research fields include Indo-Pacific, Populism and Security in Indian Foreign Policy.)
Disclaimer: These are the personal opinions of the author
