Deportation fears grip immigrants after Trump’s election

After hoping for a Democratic victory that could have created a path toward comprehensive immigration reform, these individuals are now bracing for a strongly anti-immigration Trump presidency.

“There’s nothing to be afraid of”, she said. Sally Kinoshita, deputy director of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, added that individuals have the right to remain silent, and the right to ask for a warrant when officers want to come in and search their homes. Trump’s supporters believe immigrants should “do it the right way”, and “get in the back of the line” without realizing that the line for undocumented immigrants doesn’t exist. “I’m going to be back to the same position before, working illegally or even sent back to a country I don’t know”, said Carlos Carrasco, who came to the USA when he was 12-years-old.

He said while his firm knows what the law is under President Barack Obama, they will stay busy.

But perhaps that was Raymundo’s own tough talk.

But a 2013 video shows Trump had another concern about immigrants – that they’d vote for Democrats.

“We have seen that as many as 15 percent or more of DACA recipients are eligible for something more permanent than DACA”, said Kinoshita. So, if you have DACA but don’t have advanced parole, you might still get it. “They’re children. They need to go forward, go to school”.

Pro-immigration advocates say they’ll follow the example of activists in places such as Arizona, who used a mix of tactics to push back against that state’s 2010 law requiring cops to check the immigration status of people whom they have “reasonable suspicion” of being undocumented.

Now, many immigrants in the country illegally, or with relatives who are, fear deportation and separation from their families. A similar program launched by Obama to protect the immigrant parents of USA citizens has been challenged in US courts.

And then, there’s the undocumented. “But to save face, President Trump and congressional leaders will likely agree to a modest extension of the existing border fence”. That program, instituted under President Obama, makes certain undocumented people who came to the USA before the age of 16 low-level priorities for deportation while also granting them legal, three-year work permits.

“I have been receiving messages on social media and text messages, asking what is going to happen to their status?” she said.

“Every possible unauthorized immigrant that you encounter, you should arrest them, you should put them into removal proceeding”.

‘What’s Going To Happen To Our People?’ “It’s a very expensive and time consuming process”, David Schlesinger said.

Ericksen said Trump’s immigration policy has plenty of support in Congress. It’s one of the themes least addressed during the campaign.

Currently, there are over 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States of America. “He even said he’s going to strip Puerto Ricans of their citizenship”.

Rosa, 22, says she feels a triple threat after Trump’s win because she is Mexican, a woman and a lesbian. A few months later, he was responsible for getting the wall into the Republican Party platform.

Experts predict the white working-class voters who helped propel Trump to the White House will insist he keep at least some of his promises to curb immigration, which included a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States and “extreme vetting” of immigrants from countries deemed at high risk for terrorism. “We are glad that it’s on the agenda, and it’s going to be a hard conversation but I think it is one where there is potential to make progress”.