Trump shows every sign of carrying out sweeping immigration crackdown

“On day one of the Trump administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare”, Trump’s website now reads. 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. I say, what are you doing?

Before Trump takes office, CASA, the immigrant assistance nonprofit, is holding additional trainings to teach immigrants their rights.

“I don’t have anything negative to say to them other than I feel very sorry for them”.

Also, the head of Trump’s immigration transition team has signaled the administration would support more raids to uncover undocumented workers and the employers who hire them. RAICES executive director Jonathan Ryan, whose San Antonio nonprofit provides legal services to asylum-seeking women and children, said the waiting room at his office has been filled with people since Wednesday.

Like many dreamers, she was brought to the United States illegally by her parents, in her case when she was 1.

There is anxiety among Kenyans in the United States, especially those without a valid immigration status, because the man whom many wished not to be the president has been elected. “Although Obama deported many thousands of people, there was a sense in Mexico that Obama was a partner they could work with”. She hopes to be a pharmacist one day.

Trump has supported the controversial “stop and frisk” policing policy, which a federal judge ruled unconstitutional in NY in 2013 because it unlawfully targeted blacks and Latinos.

“For me there are concerns and alarm but we are ready to fight”, said Cesar Vargas, a DACA recipient who also worked on the Bernie Sanders campaign and was in Arizona monitoring polls on November 8. Arce made national and worldwide headlines when she revealed that she had achieved the American Dream of wealth and status working her way up to vice president at Goldman Sachs by age 27 while being an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.

He said they are planning forums to begin educating people on their rights as DACA recipients.

“Am I going to be here all by myself with my kids and who is going to come in and help me?”

In Chicago, Rosa, 22, said she felt a triple threat after Trump’s win because she is Mexican, a woman and a lesbian.

“Between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, I didn’t have great expectations in Hillary, that she’d solve all our problems”, Raymundo said in Spanish. Vanessa did not want to use her first or last name because she fears being deported. “He even said he’s going to strip Puerto Ricans of their citizenship”.

The elimination of unauthorised immigrants, most of whom entered the USA through student or visiting visas that have since expired, is top on Trump’s agenda to “Make America Great Again”. She wrote, “We are here to stay and we are ready to fight back”.

The question today among anxious Hispanics is whether Trump will deport even more. “We are not Republicans first”, Obama said.

“We are going to be presenting to the new president a variety of options that could end this assault”, McConnell said.

Trump’s immigration platform was a cornerstone of his campaign. Nonetheless, Orrantia says he plans to actively oppose any anti-immigration policies and remain in the country that he’s called home since coming here from Mexico when he was 18.