{"id":124340,"date":"2024-11-10T20:10:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T13:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124340"},"modified":"2024-11-10T20:10:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-10T13:10:56","slug":"fear-of-scary-times-ahead-for-some-immigrants-in-trumps-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=124340","title":{"rendered":"Fear of &#8216;scary&#8217; times ahead for some immigrants in Trump&#8217;s return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Immigrants react to Donald Trump winning the 2024 election: 'We have to hope for the best'\">\n<div class=\"gnt_em_vp_w\" data-g-r=\"vp_tp\" data-c-vt=\"teal\" data-t-pl=\"teal-hero\"><button class=\"gnt_em_vp_a gnt_em_vp__tp_a\" data-g-r=\"vp_ap vp_tg\" data-c-vpattrs=\"{&quot;muted&quot;:true,&quot;bContent&quot;:false,&quot;an&quot;:&quot;usatoday&quot;,&quot;pn&quot;:&quot;USA TODAY&quot;,&quot;vidNum&quot;:1,&quot;docking&quot;:true,&quot;t0060&quot;:1,&quot;cut&quot;:1}\" data-c-vpdata=\"{&quot;adsEnabled&quot;:true,&quot;awsPath&quot;:&quot;news\/politics\/elections&quot;,&quot;byline&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;canonicalURL&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;contentSourceCode&quot;:&quot;USAT&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;USA TODAY&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:73000,&quot;headline&quot;:&quot;Immigrants react to Donald Trump winning the 2024 election: 'We have to hope for the best'&quot;,&quot;hlsURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/hlsmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/videos\/zype\/renditions\/672c0e248978220001698c45\/480p_30fps,720p_30fps,1080p_30fps,master.m3u8?subtitles=76101266007&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;76101266007&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:{&quot;opto&quot;:true,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/11\/07\/USAT\/76101325007-16-x-9-thumbnail-template-00-00-00-26-still-003.png?crop=1919,1079,x0,y0&quot;},&quot;keywords&quot;:&quot;Elections,Voting,Donald Trump,Video Syndication - USAT,Video Syndication - OTT Platforms,VPC - Video Analytics&quot;,&quot;mp4URL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/downloadmedia.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/videos\/zype\/renditions\/672c0e248978220001698c45\/1080p_30fps.mp4&quot;,&quot;origin&quot;:&quot;USA TODAY&quot;,&quot;pageURL&quot;:{&quot;long&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/11\/06\/how-do-some-immigrants-feel-about-donald-trumps-presidential-win\/76101266007\/&quot;},&quot;promoBrief&quot;:&quot;Former President Donald Trump will take office again in 2025. How do immigrants in Washington, DC feel about his win?&quot;,&quot;propertyName&quot;:&quot;USATODAY&quot;,&quot;series&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;ssts&quot;:{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;subsection&quot;:&quot;politics&quot;,&quot;topic&quot;:&quot;elections&quot;,&quot;subtopic&quot;:&quot;&quot;},&quot;tags&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;d4571afc-85ce-4ccf-8310-fc219168c86e&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Elections&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;404975e4-ab94-47e1-a6b1-cb1afb5524b6&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Voting&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;26f031d1-9924-4f10-b4e6-019d076113d5&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Donald Trump&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;6f55135f-3b5e-490d-8a52-a3b8e1f11ee7&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Video Syndication - USAT&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;16fe9f9b-4247-4e2e-a73c-9fac5b14d01b&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Video Syndication - OTT Platforms&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;12cc5543-9f04-49f7-9b7f-d0d46b93b8e0&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;VPC - Video Analytics&quot;}],&quot;title&quot;:&quot;How do some immigrants feel about Donald Trump's presidential win?&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;\/videos\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/11\/06\/how-do-some-immigrants-feel-about-donald-trumps-presidential-win\/76101266007\/&quot;}\" aria-label=\"Play video\"><img alt=\"\" class=\"gnt_em_vp_img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/11\/08\/USAT\/76130819007-getty-images-107428142.jpg?crop=5615,3159,x0,y292&amp;width=660&amp;height=371&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" data-g-r=\"vp_po\" fetchpriority=\"high\" elementtiming=\"ar-lead-image\" decoding=\"async\"\/><svg class=\"gnt_em_vp_svg\"><use xlink:href=\"#gnt_svg_video_play\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Giddel Contreras lives in the Bronx, works as a chef at a hotel-resort in Queens and is as much a New Yorker as the next guy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But the Honduran native&#8217;s decision to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border back in 1995 means <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/22\/trump-mass-deportation-plan-cost\/75690260007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">he may now be a target for deportation<\/a> \u2013 despite being married more than a decade to a U.S. citizen, living and working legally in the U.S. for more than 25 years and having a child who&#8217;s a U.S. citizen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/11\/06\/how-donald-trump-won-again\/76089497007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Donald Trump&#8217;s resounding victory<\/a> on Tuesday offers a clear mandate for his promise to massively deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally. His plan also includes revoking certain immigration benefits that keep millions of immigrants with their families, including the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org\/research\/temporary-protected-status-overview#:~:text=As%20of%20March%2031%2C%202024,two%20redesignations%20since%20that%20date.\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">temporary protected status<\/a>,&#8221; or TPS, that allowed Contreras and people from certain countries <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/as-tps-ends-new-yorkers-face-breakup-of-families\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">to stay in the U.S<\/a>.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;It&#8217;s scary times,&#8221; said Maribel Herna\u0301ndez Rivera, his wife and an immigration attorney by trade. She&#8217;s also the director of policy and government affairs for the ACLU, whose affiliate helped bring the case that blocked Trump&#8217;s attempt to cancel TPS the first time around.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img gnt_em_img__inset\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:400px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/11\/08\/USAT\/76130189007-img-1670.jpg?crop=2315,3086,x0,y0&amp;width=300&amp;height=400&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/11\/08\/USAT\/76130189007-img-1670.jpg?crop=2315,https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/3086,https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/x0,https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/y0&amp;width=600&amp;height=800&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Maribel Herna\u0301ndez Rivera and Giddel Contreras\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Trump has said mass deportation is a necessary step to protect the country from &#8220;criminal illegal aliens.&#8221; A majority of American voters \u2013 more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/11\/05\/us\/elections\/results-president.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">73 million<\/a> \u2013 agreed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>Sign-up for Your Vote:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":body nav (sms)|e|auto spike click:7|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/08\/16\/text-your-elections-questions-to-your-vote-sms\/74819698007\/\">Text with the USA TODAY elections team.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Among those voters who backed Trump&#8217;s campaign were millions of Latinos. Trump won about 45% of Latino voters in this election, up significantly from the 32% of Latinos he won in 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2024\/exit-polls\/national-results\/general\/president\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">according to CNN exit polling<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During his victory speech on election night, Trump reiterated his plans for tougher immigration enforcement: &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna have to seal up those borders, and we&#8217;re gonna have to let people come into our country. We want people to come back in. But we have to, we have to let them come back in, but they have to come in legally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Now, immigrant families are coming to grips with multiple realities, from the threat of widespread deportations to the understanding that a broad swath of Americans don&#8217;t want them here.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_anc\" id=\"gnt_atomsnc\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-method=\"loadAnc\" aria-label=\"Newsletter signup form\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">More than 19 million of America&#8217;s Latinos live in a household with an immigrant, according to an analysis by FWD.us, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fwd.us\/news\/mixed-status-families-oct\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">nearly a third could see their family separated<\/a> under Trump&#8217;s immigration enforcement plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">To deport upwards of 11 million people, as Trump has promised, &#8220;you are talking about going into people\u2019s homes, where there are mixed-status families,&#8221; said Juan Proan\u0303o, chief executive of the League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;There is one parent who is documented, one who isn\u2019t, children who are U.S. citizens,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Are you taking the mother? Are you taking the father? Are you deporting the whole family?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Trump&#8217;s victory has set off a wave of fear and anxiety across immigrant communities nationally, said Michael Kagan, who runs the University of Nevada-Las Vegas Immigration Clinic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI think this is a very scary moment,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If we get into a full-on deportation with the National Guard and detention camps in the desert, things will get very, very scary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/31\/trump-deportation-company-profits\/75732590007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|spike click:19|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Trump&#8217;s deportation plan: A cost to taxpayers, billions for big business<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Herna\u0301ndez Rivera said she takes heart in the legal challenges to Trump&#8217;s agenda that successfully protected her husband and many others last time around.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;During the first Trump administration, we sued constantly,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is what we do. We are well aware that a second Trump administration promises to be more cruel and less limited by the laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Federal authorities versus &#8216;sanctuary&#8217; cities<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Trump didn&#8217;t meet his mass deportation goals during his first term, after he ran into legal road blocks and the refusal by &#8220;sanctuary&#8221; jurisdictions to work with him, from San Francisco to Chicago and New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On Thursday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for <a href=\"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/politics\/capitol\/2024\/11\/gavin-newsom-special-session-trump-resistance\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">a special legislative session to strategize<\/a> how the state will counter Trump&#8217;s plans, including providing funds to fight any attempts to end protections for immigrants brought to the country as children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In New York, the city&#8217;s commissioner of immigrant affairs, Manuel Castro, warned about misinformation spreading in immigrant communities and cautioned against &#8220;panic and fear setting in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">He said New York City&#8217;s agencies, including police, will respect the city&#8217;s sanctuary laws and that immigrants shouldn&#8217;t be afraid to seek services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cWe expect all our city agencies to follow our sanctuary laws,&#8221; Castro said during a Wednesday news conference. &#8220;We will continue to protect our immigrant communities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But Trump has threatened to curtail federal resources to sanctuary jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, and that could put some cash-strapped cities in a bind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Last December, New York City, Chicago and Denver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/991-23\/coalition-cities-call-more-federal-support-respond-national-migrant-crisis-mayor#:~:text=As%20the%20Adams%20administration%20continues,be%20released%20in%20January%202024.\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">pleaded for federal assistance<\/a> to help house tens of thousands of migrants who had arrived penniless after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IlKsA30Yn-8\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">bused them there from the border<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Department of Homeland Security in April gave out more than $300 million in grants through its Shelter and Services Program to cities grappling with humanitarian crises, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/grants\/preparedness\/shelter-services-program\/fy24-awards\/ssp-a\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">more than $20 million<\/a> to New York&#8217;s Office of Management and Budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/01\/21\/texas-governor-reshapes-border-immigration\/72166240007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">optics of Abbott&#8217;s busing program<\/a>, which forced cities to provide shelter and services to tens of thousands of migrants, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/08\/22\/black-voters-chicago-election-harris-trump\/74773069007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">fueled some Americans&#8217; anger<\/a> with the Biden-Harris administration&#8217;s handling of the border and drove voters to Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/10\/02\/aclu-sues-trump-mass-deportation\/75391673007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|spike click:34|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">ACLU sues feds, questions infrastructure for mass deportation<\/a><\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">Hundreds of actions on immigration<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Though Trump may not have delivered on his more extreme promises the first time \u2013 including a vow to deport millions or seal off the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border \u2013 the administration was broadly successful in ramping up immigration enforcement and making legal immigration more difficult, according to a report by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">His administration took <a href=\"https:\/\/www.migrationpolicy.org\/research\/four-years-change-immigration-trump\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">472 executive actions affecting immigration policy<\/a>, according to the 2022 report \u2013 an array of changes that ranged from travel bans targeting Muslim-majority nations; to suspending non-immigrant visa processing; to ramping up immigration enforcement in the interior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Kagan, the Las Vegas professor, said he suspects some Trump voters don&#8217;t really understand what a mass deportation would look like, and others may have backed Trump because he promised to address longstanding border concerns and think he&#8217;ll only target violent offenders.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:440px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/11\/08\/USAT\/76130820007-getty-images-2167160863.jpg?width=660&amp;height=440&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/11\/08\/USAT\/76130820007-getty-images-2167160863.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=880&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks about immigration and border security near Coronado National Memorial in Montezuma Pass, Arizona, August 22, 2024.\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But in one of Trump&#8217;s first executive orders in 2017, he &#8220;made every unauthorized immigrant a priority for arrest,&#8221; ending the Obama-era discretion for immigration agents to target only criminals for deportation, according to the Migration Policy Institute report. The Biden-Harris administration re-directed ICE to focus on deporting people who are national security threats or felons.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Trump took aim at everyone who wasn&#8217;t a citizen or legal permanent resident, and &#8220;put everyone at the same level,&#8221; said Jessica Orozco Guttlein, senior vice president for policy at the Hispanic Federation. &#8220;Undocumented immigrants \u2013 that\u2019s the priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;That\u2019s what underpinned the panic&#8221; at the time, she said. &#8220;People were saying, &#8216;Oh my gosh we are all high-priority for deportation. Where is safe?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">&#8216;Will they take my babies?&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">No president has reached the level of annual deportations that Democratic President Barack Obama did, who at the peak in 2012 removed more than 407,000 people, according to Syracuse&#8217;s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse. In total, his eight-year administration recorded more than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/trac.syr.edu\/phptools\/immigration\/remove\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">3.1 million ICE deportations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Trump&#8217;s highest year came in 2019, when his administration removed more than 269,000 people, according to the TRAC dataset. Across all four years of Trump&#8217;s administration, ICE recorded just under 932,000 deportations.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:440px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/11\/08\/USAT\/76130819007-getty-images-107428142.jpg?width=660&amp;height=440&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/11\/08\/USAT\/76130819007-getty-images-107428142.jpg?width=1320&amp;height=880&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), officers patted down undocumented immigrants from El Salvador before boarding them onto a deportation flight on Dec. 8, 2010 in Mesa, Arizona. The Obama administration made targeting undocumented criminals a priority in its immigration enforcement.\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">But immigrant advocates say the threat alone is enough to unsettle people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I vividly remember in 2017 the fear and anxiety within mixed-status families,&#8221; Orozco Guttlein said. &#8220;They weren\u2019t sending their kids to school; they were missing work, not going to hospitals, traveling locally only. This isn\u2019t something we can say won\u2019t happen again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The federation&#8217;s New York office has already started fielding calls, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We have heard questions, individuals saying, &#8216;I\u2019m undocumented. My children are U.S. citizens. Will the United States let me take my children with me, or will they take my babies?&#8217; We have to put these kinds of things in context: You have a right to be with your children. You have a right to bring your children with you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The nonprofit is working with a network of grassroots organizations to provide &#8220;know your rights&#8221; workshops and information following Trump&#8217;s win. They&#8217;ll focus first on rural areas including in North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, Wisconsin and Ohio, she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;Those areas have a lot of mis- and disinformation and a lack of culturally competent service providers,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Trump has often cited a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2015\/11\/11\/455613993\/it-came-up-in-the-debate-here-are-3-things-to-know-about-operation-wetback\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">1954 deportation sweep<\/a> as a model for his mass-deportation effort<strong>.<\/strong> But Kagan said that military-led dragnet deported many American citizens of Mexican descent, along with people living in the United States without legal permission.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cWhen we get into a mass deportation system, people who think a piece of paper will save them are nai\u0308ve,&#8221; Kagan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Kagan said he also worries that self-appointed vigilante groups, empowered by Trump&#8217;s victory, might start harassing or attacking immigrant communities under extra-legal circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThat has happened before, and that\u2019s a risk that\u2019s on the table now,&#8221; Kagan said.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/news\/nation\/2024\/03\/20\/tracking-immigration-on-the-us-mexico-border\/73044984007\/\" data-t-l=\":l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - Tracking immigration on the US, Mexico border\" data-g-r=\"nav_mo\" data-g-tn=\"pgcss\" data-g-mtn=\"pg73044984007\" data-g-moh=\"hpgm\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\" aria-expanded=\"false\" onmousedown=\"event.stopPropagation()\" onmouseup=\"event.stopPropagation()\" data-c-id=\"73044984007\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/03\/20\/USAT\/73044710007-usp-news-migrant-crisis-in-el-paso.jpg?crop=2999,1688,x0,y103&amp;width=660&amp;height=372&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/03\/20\/USAT\/73044710007-usp-news-migrant-crisis-in-el-paso.jpg?crop=2999,https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/1688,https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/x0,https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/y103&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"gnt_ar_b_h2\">&#8216;It is scary times&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Herna\u0301ndez Rivera said she and her husband will take what comes, day by day, just like they did the last time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">She continues to believe most Americans don&#8217;t want to see families like hers divided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;There is one big thing that gives me hope,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Being in this work, there are a lot of people who support us. 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