Local Concern Over Trump’s Promise to Eliminate DACA

State Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Bellingham, the former deputy director of the Trump campaign in Washington state, sought to blame whatever disruptions there are on Obama. Raymundo, who’s undocumented and came to the country from Guatemala in 2013, shrugs off the significance of Donald Trump’s victory. It also exempts them from deportation. The federal government has said it would not share that information with immigration authorities and legal experts believe an attempt to do that would be unsuccessful. “There’s going to be separation of family, where one member of the family is going to be undocumented”, she said.

Charlotte immigration attorney Tin Thanh Nguyen said he received almost a dozen messages from immigrants on Wednesday, expressing fears that their pending cases were jeopardized.

President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to revoke some of Barack Obama’s executive actions, including one granting temporary residency to those who arrived here when they were minors, is unnerving some who now fear deportation.

It allows young adults to get work permits, social security numbers and protects them from deportation.

But in Alabama, representatives of pro-immigrant groups say that they and even some of the undocumented immigrants they work with are not as concerned as some of their counterparts in other states. She’s hopeful Trump was just boasting during the campaign and in the end will do the right thing.

“These are kids that go to our children’s schools, these are young adults getting their first job with no other country as their home except for the USA, young people who are raising families”, says Snyder.

“What if I forget my questions?” said Esquer. In 2012 Reyes was granted legal status for 2 years through DACA. Ed Acevedo, an advocate of the C.S.R.A. But the program was challenged in court and never went into effect.

She also worries about how Latinos will be treated in a Trump presidency. She’s keen to start conversations with the people who voted for Trump, to tell them about what undocumented immigrants contribute to the USA and what the community really looks like.

Matt Lee’s parents brought him on a tourist visa to Southern California from South Korea when he was 13.

But his dreams of becoming a lawyer are clouded by Trump’s vow to get rid of DACA. Instead, they informed the world that they’re here to stay -pushing against the Republican’s racist and xenophobic statements. One mother said she is pulling her daughter out of a study overseas program in China to get the daughter back into the USA before Trump takes office, Lee said.

“There were groups on the left that wanted to scare Republicans into thinking that being for enforcing the law is politically bad for you and bad for a president”, Kobach said in 2015, “but that was a politically driven agenda that they had, and not true”. So I don’t think that as a nation that is going to happen. “Anyone who enters the USA illegally is subject to deportation”.

Chelsea is a city of almost 37,000 residents located directly across the Mystic River from Boston. She came here from Mexico when she was 3 years old with her mom and sister.

“With the unexpected news of a soon-to-be Trump presidency, most in our community became anxious for their futures, panicked even”, the ACIJ statement said.

She said she doesn’t want to have to hear her kids crying and afraid to go to school.

About 41,000 are now being held in immigration detention facilities, up from a “typical” number of between 31,000 and 34,000, Jeh Johnson, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, said in a news release Thursday. He said he would eliminate DACA and take a harder line on deporting individuals. 56 battles taught her and many other Alabama advocates and immigrants that mass deportation and other anti-immigration measures will never actually be implemented in the USA, and that that gives the state’s pro-immigrant movement strength and resolve.