As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, after an unsuccessful bid to end DACA in his first term, the roughly 535,000 current recipients are bracing yet again for a whirlwind of uncertainty.
Category: Immigration
Despite large influx, migrant shelters in Chicago see few DCFS investigations
Despite tough living conditions at shelters, migrant families appear to be mostly intact and able to care for themselves, according to DCFS data provided to the Tribune.
Trump promised mass deportations. Educators worry fear will keep immigrants’ kids from school
Last time Donald Trump was president, rumors of immigration raids terrorized the Oregon community where Gustavo Balderas was the school superintendent.
Surveillance tech advances by Biden could aid in Trump’s promised crackdown on immigration
President-elect Donald Trump will return to power next year with a raft of technological tools at his disposal that would help deliver his campaign promise of cracking down on immigration — among them, surveillance and artificial intelligence technology that the Biden administration already uses to help make crucial decisions in tracking, detaining and ultimately deporting immigrants lacking permanent legal status.
Lake County migrants bracing for Donald Trump’s next term: ‘You’re seeing this big tsunami coming … but what do you do?’
Leading up to the presidential election, Donald Trump promised to deport millions of undocumented migrants. With Trump’s election victory, that rhetoric has led to a wave of fear among migrants in Lake County,
1 million migrants in the US rely on temporary protections that Trump could target
Maribel Hidalgo fled her native Venezuela a year ago with a 1-year-old son, trudging for days through Panama’s Darien Gap, then riding the rails across Mexico to the United States.
Donald Trump names Tom Homan, former director of immigration enforcement, as ‘border czar’
President-elect Donald Trump says Tom Homan, his former acting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, will serve as “border czar” in his incoming administration.
Marginalized groups admit fear, uncertainty as Trump secures second term
Sophia Arshad, a Merrillville attorney who works on immigration cases, said she’s already received a dozen calls or emails from clients worried about the status of their cases following president-elect Donald Trump’s win Tuesday. “It goes beyond nervous, it’s anticipation of what’s to come,” Arshad said. “I have had a lot of already desperate emails and calls from current clients who are just very scared about what may or may not happen.” Jane Hartsock, a founding board member with The Good Trouble Coalition, said her nonbinary child woke up Wednesday morning feeling terrified and crying. As a mother, Hartsock has […]
Latino community in Chicago divided by Trump
In the five wards with the highest rate of Latinos, Trump got from 27% to 41% of the vote in this fall’s election, according to a Tribune analysis of voting and demographic data.
Trump’s return to White House sets stage for far-reaching immigration crackdown
Donald Trump’s victory sets the stage for a swift immigration crackdown after an AP VoteCast survey showed the president-elect’s supporters were largely focused on immigration and inflation — issues the Republican has been hammering throughout his campaign.