Trump administration creates registry for immigrants who are in the US illegally

Source: apnews.com 2/25/25

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is creating a registry for all people who are in the United States illegally, and those who don’t self-report could face fines or prosecution, immigration officials announced Tuesday.

Everyone who is in the U.S. illegally must register, give fingerprints and provide an address, the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. It cited a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act — the complex immigration law — as justification for the registration process, which would apply to anyone 14 and older.

The announcement comes as the administration seeks to make good on campaign promises to carry out mass deportations of people in the country illegally and seal the border to future asylum-seekers.

“An alien’s failure to register is a crime that could result in a fine, imprisonment, or both,” the statement said. “For decades, this law has been ignored — not anymore.”

On its website, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service said it would soon create a form and process for registration.

In one of his 10 inauguration day executive orders related to immigration, President Donald Trump initially outlined plans for creating a registry and required that Homeland Security “immediately announce and publicize information about the legal obligation of all previously unregistered aliens in the United States to comply.”

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Oh look, the federal government now wants another registry 🙄:

Nothing good comes from registries – just ask any of us!!! 😡

This doesn’t bode well for the hope that DOGE will get rid of our registry. They like power and control, and that’s what registries are all about.

Sooner or later everyone will be on some kind of registry, so people should be careful of what they wish for because it might include you soon.

The state of California had a gang member registry that was discontinued a couple of years ago. I believe there’s an arson registry, although it’s not available to the public. These things are a way of extending government control, of course. Foucault terrirory, the panopticon. I don’t like it, but there’s consistency in creating new registries, ever more. I think we’d do well to push the issue of the missing registries. Why no domestic abuser registry? No drunk driver registry?

The expansion of the pogrom has always be possible, it just took someone morally bankrupt enough to do it. This will not be the last expansion. Soon, all “Enemies Within” will be on one form of Registry or another.

If it’s legal to “Register” anyone, it’s legal to “Register” everyone! Just took someone… like Trump… to do it to everyone he feels the “Need to”.

If the demonstrably false, categorically absurd, endlessly self-contradicting, LIES that make the SOR, “All legal”… what wouldn’t work? If these LIES can be used to establish the “Need” and “Legality” of the Constitutional Rights Banishing SOR, what LIES wouldn’t work?

Lucky for all “Enemies Within” being on a Registry is no different then having a Price Club membership! Even luckier for all that Trump never tells lies about people, no matter how much he hates them!

I think this registry will be great for us. They will be on a registry for doing something illegal, like our registry. If they violate the registry, they could face a fine or prison time, like us. Once this registry is found unconstitutional, we could use that in court. I have always said there should be a drunk driving registry, but in Wisconsin where half the population has that charge, it keeps getting blocked.

This law is redundant and for show. Regardless of legal status, everyone convicted of a registrable offense is required to register. At sentencing, the courts don’t just tell an undocumented person that by the way, you’re exempt from having to register. They tell them they have to register, and they’re subject to deportation. Most times, these folks are automatically put under an ICE hold depending on the severity of the crime. And we know sex crimes are considered very serious in our country.

This is inaccurate. The Alien Registration Act has been in place for more than 80 years. Trump is just now starting to enforce it.