Lindsey Graham vows to fight Trump on immigration reform

But instead of standing still, Saavedra hopes Trump’s election will unite undocumented immigrants and spur them to stand up for their rights. But his campaign promises have immigrants, especially those living in the US illegally and those with DACA status, concerned about their future.

“I was expecting to wake up and it would just be gone”, she said.”But it was still there”.

The men were also critical of people who are protesting now that Trump has been elected, and said people have ignored decades of suffering from the black community. “Of the 11 million, who do they have fingerprints for, who do they have addresses for, who do they know where they go to school, where they work, where they fill their income taxes out?”

President-elect Trump said he would cancel every unconstitutional executive action issued by President Obama.

“That proved to me that there was somebody out there that was willing to take a chance on me”, she said. He added: “I think most of us would expect him to throw red meat to his nativist base, and this is going to be one of those ways to do it”. “It was a real mix of emotions, but at the same time, I knew it could give me some real opportunities”, she says. But, the president-elect stressed, border security must come first. “It’s something I think is a shame that these people are cut down and barred from advancing anywhere and making this nation better than it already is”. If DACA participants fear that their new-found rights will disappear, most undocumented people in the US never had these rights in the first place. She moved to the United States from India in third grade after her father passed away.

“If he intends to fix the relationship, he has to start somewhere”, she said.

Over the next four years, millions of innocent, hard-working undocumented people, as well as citizens living on the fringes of society, will have to navigate a social minefield.

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Look, in 2012, President Obama embraced the DREAMers, put them on in prime time at his convention, and Democrats continued to place DREAMers in prominent roles in the Clinton and Sanders campaigns.

“If I wanted to go into police enforcement, I would have”, Gold said. But he declined to deem the campuses as “sanctuaries”.

Trump has vowed to reverse that order on his first day in office, leaving the DREAMers with targets on their backs since they had to register with the government and provide personal information, the Democrats said. “So DACA would have to be terminated with explicit termination of employment authorization”. “Again, we’re very hopeful and looking forward to working with him”.

In 2011, the administration changed its “notice to appear” policy so people who applied for immigration benefits and were denied were not automatically placed in removal proceedings. Children in Muslim families, LGBT families, across communities of color, low-income families, even women who have been victimized by sexual assault and violence – there is very widespread fear among people who are anxious they will be targeted with violence, punitive policies, discrimination and harassment. He said anti-immigrant language was common from outspoken Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who lost his reelection bid this year after serving as sheriff since 1993. Obama took his action affecting the younger immigrants after Congress stalled for years on legislation called the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, which would have provided a path to legal status. “That includes if the law changes”.

Tylor Brown said the election and Trump’s campaign sent a message to people of color about how many Americans felt about them. We’re not burning in the streets. He then used an executive order to create the DACA program in 2012.

Fears have broadened in recent days to include concerns that fingerprints, home address and other information used in registering almost 1 million people under DACA could be used against them. “They know everything about them”. “I’ve never even heard of an undocumented student being in the tech industry”. They’re afraid for their families. This would not give them a permanent safe place, but it is a start. “If we were to use this term it would be misleading to the very people we support and serve”.

“Notre Dame has a big name for itself”, Pedroza said.

The calls to protect students weren’t just coming from Congress.

“We’re here to stay”, Purohit said.