Panic as 30000 Kenyans face deportation under Trump regime

The reckoning happened, it was taken seriously, and then it was forgotten.

A Trump nominee to the Supreme Court could do the job for him.

There is an estimated 11 to 12 million undocumented immigrant population in the United States.

“They’re anxious about a Gestapo-type police force that will come and remove people without any kind of process”, said Gabriella Navarro-Busch, a Ventura lawyer.

Trump never wavered from the hard-line stance on immigration he staked out when he first announced his candidacy.

“Last night my dream was broken”, Mina Parmar, 61, of the Indo-American Center, said, fighting tears.

For years, Kobach worked primarily through the Immigration Reform Law Institute, helping draft laws such as Arizona’s infamous SB 1070 – nicknamed the “papers, please” law – meant to harass and abuse immigrants or effectively anyone who might be perceived as “foreign”.

The first act of business for many groups is reassuring the undocumented immigrants they seek to protect that they won’t stop trying.

Héctor Vaca with the immigrant advocacy group Action NC believes Trump won because of a successfully delivered message that “certain groups of people are to blame for what’s wrong with the country”. “We will be monitoring who comes into this country”.

The next step is to fight.

Officials in NY and Los Angeles on Thursday said they hoped President-elect Donald Trump would not follow through on a campaign promise to withhold federal funds from “sanctuary cities” that shield people who are in the country illegally.

Those people are all now known to the government as undocumented immigrants ― a scary prospect, even if Trump does not decide to use that information to target them for deportation.

Immigration advocates are also grappling with how to handle enrollment for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program started under President Barack Obama. Mexican Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu said Mexico will discuss ways to “modernise” the pact with Mr Trump’s transition team in the coming months.

“There is fear and anger in Mexico”, said Carrasco.

Trump has proposed shutting off immigration from countries linked to terrorism. She added it’s too soon to know what a Trump administration will do with the program – it could cancel DACA altogether or simply close it to new applicants.

And Trump said he would suspend immigration from countries that are “compromised by terrorism”, although he has not clarified what countries he’d consider.

More than 100 people attended an immigration clinic at Pueblo High School Thursday evening. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), made it through their primaries.

And there is a chance that things may still work out that way.

“I just feel like it’s a setback from everything that’s just been going on”, he said.

The hope of pro-immigration libertarians and others has been that once in office and confronted with the humanitarian horrors, economic downside and political backlash that this agenda would unleash, Trump would back off. LSU Assistant Professor of Immigration Law Lauren Aronson anticipates Trump will issue an executive order that gives local law enforcement officers the ability to contact federal authorities when they come across illegal immigrants.

He said Trump may retain some changes under Obamacare like allowing those under the age of 26 to remain under their parents insurance, but the majority will likely be phased out with more private sector competition.

About 41,000 are now being held in immigration detention facilities, up from a “typical” number of between 31,000 and 34,000, Jeh Johnson, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said in a news release Thursday.