Local immigrants prepare for Trump’s deportation plan

Since a special order in 1979, the department has prohibited officers from “initiating contact with someone exclusively to determine whether he or she is in the country legally”.

But he made no distinction between legal and illegal immigration when he said he said, “I also know that New Yorkers will stand together and stand up for the needs of working people; we’re going to stand up for our immigrant brothers and sisters”. “We have no interest in the deportation of immigrants”, says a message from police chief Alan Goldberg on the city’s website. The president has complete executive authority to say that if the local authorities are not going to enforce federal law, the federal government is not going to provide funds to those police departments. That falls between his call during the campaign to deport all undocumented immigrants and statements that backed down from that rhetoric.

Trump has reaffirmed his commitment to build a wall along the U.S. -Mexico border, though he has said part of the 1,000-plus mile structure could be fencing.

But significant questions – and unease – remain concerning his approach to sanctuary cities.

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“Since the election, many questions have been raised about Aurora Police Department’s current non-enforcement policy on immigration”. One policy barred Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from entering school campuses without the prior consent of the superintendent and the district’s lawyers.

“He can’t grant them legal status”, she said. “And it will be up to him to set up a great team that he thinks will serve him well and will reflect his policies”, he said. In 2003, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft removed five of the 16 judges on the panel, all of them considered more pro-immigrant than others.

New York’s Bill de Blasio, Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel and Seattle’s Ed Murray are among those in “sanctuary cities” who have tried to soothe immigrant populations anxious about Trump’s agenda. If approved, it is said that immigrants from Muslim countries would be forced to register on a database and receive a form of identification that notes their religion.

Just look at how he abandoned his most sweeping promises to deport the entire undocumented population within two years, now saying that 3 million people – mostly convicted felons – would be the priorities in forced removals from the U.S. He has also opposed Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA, which provided work permits and deportation reprieves to people who were brought to the U.S.as children and stayed illegally.