Illegal immigration was another cornerstone of Trump’s campaign.
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They are the young people who were brought to the United States by their parents as children. “Why? Because of the example of Donald Trump”.
Matos said cities including Philadelphia, Seattle and Los Angeles have pledged that they won’t uphold the federal deportation law. “Our status and our way of life in this country are in limbo”, said another. China has warned that Trump’s promise to impose sanctions on its economy (for “currency manipulation” that experts say Trump is wrong about) will prompt swift reprisals; will the president-elect tell Beijing he was only kidding? Because in four years, when another Democrat stands to challenge Trump, we will need to hold them accountable as well.
Donald Trump has won the presidency and both parties are right: it’s time to think about healing and immediately unifying a divided nation. There are places like California, where drivers’ licenses are once again available to all residents regardless of status, where undocumented workers enjoy explicit protections against retaliation, and where public higher education is one of the most accessible in the country for undocumented students.
Juan Cartagena, president and senior counsel at LatinoJustice in New York City, said protecting “the 11 million undocumented people who have been working here for decades” would be one the of top priorities for his organization.
Schlesinger said he does not want people to panic, but be more vigilant and seek legal advice if they are concerned.
He estimates the current budget for U.S. immigration proceedings would allow the government to realistically remove up to 400,000 undocumented immigrants per fiscal year. “This calls for great resilience for our communities”, she says.
Earlier this year, Kobach complained that Immigration and Customs Enforcement wasn’t just rounding up and deporting undocumented immigrants who show up to protests or to testify before legislatures.
Rosa was nine months old when her parents brought her to the USA illegally.
“We are going to be presenting to the new president a variety of options that could end this assault”, McConnell said. “I grew up here”. This is their birthright.
“We have seen that as many as 15 percent or more of DACA recipients are eligible for something more permanent than DACA”, said Kinoshita.
Cesar Cruz is talking with students who are anxious about losing family members to deportation early in the Trump administration.
Pelley: You’re rounding them all up?
“I feel like it’s a bad dream”.
Trump says he’ll do it, but Curry said it’s more likely the Trump Administration will end up pushing some sort of reform bill that repeals aspects of Obamacare, rather than the whole thing.
Soto’s entire family, which includes her parents and 10 siblings, is undocumented. “If people around the world believe they can just come on a temporary visa and never leave – the Obama-Clinton policy – then we have a completely open border”.
I applied for DACA on my own, spending long nights in the basement of our college newspaper going through the dense application line by line.
“In the past couple days since the election … we have children in our schools who are scared”, Gomez told the congregation.
If Trump does want to deport Ricardo Zamudio, he’ll have no trouble finding him. That we are not the culprits of their woes.
“In the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, families are asking, “‘Oh my God, what is going to happen now?'” said Michael Seifert, a community organizer and network weaver for the Equal Voice Network in the area.
“We’re very much in favor of that”. We are likely to see a lesser USA effort to strike diplomatic alliances with like-minded democratic countries, and a USA retrenchment from its role as a global champion of democracy and human rights. “But we also know that the president in this country is not king”. The group will hold a community meeting from 2 to 6 p.m. Saturday at Mayfield Intermediate School in Manassas, Virginia, to counsel families about what they can do ahead of January 20.
But Cesar is still hopeful. Latinos gave Trump only 18 percent of their vote, the lowest level of support in nearly 60 years. And the Department of Justice is already seeking to bar grants to governments that don’t enforce the immigration laws, said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies in Washington, D.C.
One of the most important policy decisions for the Trump administration will be what to do with respect to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA.
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Throughout his campaign, Trump called himself the “law and order” president – a dog whistle term that harkens back to Richard Nixon who ran part of his 1968 presidential campaign on the same premise in an attempt to sway Southern conservative whites.
