Immigrants across US prep for Trump crackdown

Published On : 2024-11-25T09:49:27+0530 [ IST ] | Author : Mayur_Tembhare
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Foreign-born residents have been jamming the phone lines of immigration lawyers. They're packing information meetings organized by nonprofits. And they're taking whatever steps they can to inoculate themselves from the sweeping measures Trump has promised

Inna Simakovsky an immigration lawyer in Columbus, Ohio said her team has been overwhelmed with consultations.People with green cards want to become citizens as soon as possible. People who have a tenuous legal status or who entered the country illegally are scrambling to file for asylum because even if the claim is thin

"The election result put me in a state of panic," said Yaneth Campuzano a software engineer in Houston. Brought to the US from Mexico when she was 2 months old she was eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA. ButDACAwas a target of Trump's during his first term and is being challenged

Trump campaigned on a promise of mass deportations. His top immigration policy adviser Stephen Miller has said that "vast holding facilities" would serve as "staging centres" for the operation.

Even in California whose leaders restricted cooperation with immigration authorities during Trump's first term and have pledged to do so again, immigrants are worried about enforcement going into overdrive.

Source : Reporters From Sunrise Chronicles

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