Mayors of ‘sanctuary cities’ say they’ll fight Trump’s plans

The Migration Policy Institute, a nonprofit think tank, found that almost half of those 1.9 million were legally present in the United States as green card holders, and were not undocumented. He could also do nothing. NPR reports there are 300 such cities and counties, and under Trump’s First 100 Days plan they stand to lose federal funding if they don’t change their tune.

Deportations under Obama soared with 400,000 in 2012.

But California senate president pro-tempore Kevin De Leon said the state would protect people’s rights, and urged Trump to retract his statement.

Gabriel and his wife are living in the United States without documents.

“I know that there are a lot of people who are angry and frustrated and fearful, but our city’s never been about that”.

While Mr Trump appeared to have pulled back on the anti-Muslim rhetoric immediately after he was elected, he has since indicated he still plans to follow through on his plans.

Citing, the Migration Policy Institute’s figure of 11 million immigrants in the country without proper documentation, they believe that only 820,000 of them have criminal records. It does not mean, as its wording might suggest, that undocumented immigrants who commit crimes enjoy shelter and coverage from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, who are in charge of deportation operations.

It’s also unclear what money Trump might pull.

“There are already residents who are willing to step up to help our community”, Stewart said.

Trump won’t find an ally among the LAPD.

Instead of the rapid mass deportation of millions of people, Trump’s administration may draw a patchwork of other measures liberal and pro-immigration groups will still view as extreme.

Although Trump has not committed to any specific advisory group recommendations, the president-elect said in an interview with “60 Minutes” that he would be open to the idea of having a fence instead of wall along some portions of the U.S.

Donald Trump’s advisers are looking to tighten screenings for immigrants coming to the US from “high risk” locations – but the campaign is denying a report that it wants to create a registry for people from Muslim countries. As the Republican frontrunner, he vowed to put a temporary ban on immigration of Muslims in America. “But to do this in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, to do this in the absence of something that people all across this country want and are clamoring for, to have a piecemeal strategy for a solution that needs an overall strategy”. Such a program in 2001, in the wake of 9/11, and was shut down in 2011.

President Barack Obama held his first press conference after the elections, where it was apparent that Republican Donald Trump would be his successor.

Border Patrol agents: 18,321 agents patrol the USA border with Mexico.