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Trump's Deportation Storm: America Braces for Mass Exodus of Immigrants

For months, immigration advocates have been planning for the possibility of Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Now, their worst fears have arrived.

Immigrants’ rights groups have spent the last year preparing for a second Trump term and an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system, analyzing Trump’s proposals, drafting legal briefs, coordinating messaging and organizing aid for immigrants and asylum seekers. They responded to Trump’s victory with alarm and vowed to put up a fight, setting the stage for four more years of contentious court battles with his administration.

Some are already preparing to push current leadership at the Department of Homeland Security to take steps to stymie the incoming Trump team, particularly on immigrant detention and the use of AI in enforcement.

“We should expect to see the devastation of immigrant communities all over the country. We should expect to see family separation,” said Kica Matos, the president of the National Immigration Law Center. “It is entirely possible that he will try to use the military to carry out deportations, so that means that Americans all over the country will see the military engaging in enforcement against civilian populations, which is horrifying.”Trump, after winning a historic victory on a platform of turbo-charged immigration enforcement, has said he will conduct mass deportations at a scale never before seen. Immigrant advocates have warned this would be expensive and inhumane, separating families and wrecking communities. The president-elect has also vowed to build huge detention camps, hire thousands more border agents, funnel military spending toward border security and invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expel suspected members of drug cartels and criminal gangs without court hearings.

He has also said he would end “catch-and-release” — allowing migrants to remain free, often with monitoring, while they await immigration court hearings — and restore a policy from his first term requiring asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are processed. And he has dodged questions about whether he would try to bring back family separation.

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 @jonathanrc08  from New York  commented…1mo1MO

Donald Trump doesn’t care about the amount of immigrants that contribute to this nation, neither does he care about all the children of immigrants that would be seperated from their families. Where would all those millions of kids go? He pledges to improve the economy and lower inflation but wants to get rid of a massive chunk of people that work hard to live in this country, not to mention how expensive an operation this big would be. Anyone who thinks these mass deportations would actually benefit the economy has no idea how much harm this would actually do.

 @9ZF2ZHN from Colorado  commented…1mo1MO

There has to be a consequence to a broken law. If anyone want so to live and work here, just do so LEGALLY.

 @9ZDM97W from Florida  agreed…1mo1MO

You are right!

Could you post stuff like this more often?

 @InsecureUnanim0usLibertarian from North Carolina  commented…1mo1MO

This is a slippery slope. Letting the government use military force on civilians for ‘immigration control’ opens the door to abuse of power. What's to stop them from using that force on other groups in the future?

 @RadiantSocialJusticeCentre-Right from Virginia  commented…1mo1MO

I get the need for enforcement, but detention camps? That doesn’t sit right with me. We should be focusing on policies that help Americans while treating people with some humanity. Isn’t that possible?

  @Renaldo-MoonGreen  from Pennsylvania  agreed…1mo1MO

Detention camps sounds too much like concentration camps for my liking.

 @9ZDM97W from Florida  agreed…1mo1MO

You are so right on many levels.

  @@1876-Elbert from Colorado  commented…1mo1MO

Simple. The Second Amendment.

 @Pl4tformOliviaRepublican from Tennessee  commented…1mo1MO

Finally, someone is standing up for national security. It’s time we get control of the border. People need to understand: without secure borders, we don’t have a country. If the military’s what it takes, so be it.

 @9ZDM97W from Florida  commented…1mo1MO

Excuse me!

Did you not see the words "family separation" in there?

 @9ZF2ZHN from Colorado  commented…1mo1MO

It is irresponsible on the parent's part to drag their children through an illegal process. If they come and become legal, great, bring the kids. If not, the parents made that mistake.

 @BrainyGr4ssrootsSocialistfrom Maine  commented…1mo1MO

This isn’t about immigration—it’s about instilling fear in vulnerable communities. Targeting immigrants isn’t going to solve our problems. We need a path to citizenship, not detention camps and family separations.

 @jonathanrc08  from New York  agreed…1mo1MO

I can’t believe people actually support these mass deportations, we should be helping our communities, not getting rid of them

 @9YNP72P from California  commented…1mo1MO

They on the most part were not in danger. They are the danger. To especially children.

 @9ZF2ZHN from Colorado  commented…1mo1MO

Again, ILLEGAL immigrants. Big difference.

 @4F5XHWRcommented…1mo1MO

Why does every article forget the word ILLEGAL. He's not deporting immigrants. He's deporting ILLEGAL immigrants. If you entered this country the correct way, legally, you have nothing to worry about. Break the law and you'll pay the consequences. Easy to understand... well for half the country.

 @9YNM7XM from California  agreed…1mo1MO

Engaged Border Security

Trump's emphasis has ALWAYS been on ILLEGAL immigrants. The citizenship program protects the people from criminals (with tens of millions of illegal immigrants, criminals are a guarantee mathematically, even if they are a minority of those numbers) who have taken advantage of the combination of open border policy and the weakening of law enforcement under the Biden-Harris administration. The hard truth is that if someone faces the consequences of breaking our law by coming here ILLEGALLY, that is on them for BREAKING OUR LAW.

 @9ZC3F8Y from Ohio  disagreed…1mo1MO

Trump objectively cracked down on legal immigration too. It was much harder to obtain a green card and rejection rates were massive.

 @L0bbyistMayaGreen from Nebraska  commented…1mo1MO

We should be pushing back hard on this. Detention camps and mass deportations? This sounds like a human rights nightmare. America is supposed to be a place of refuge, not fear. I can’t believe some people are okay with this!

 @9YNFW3Y from Massachusetts  agreed…1mo1MO

sounds like Hitler, smells like Hitler.

Is this really for more capital? This is degrading the migrants to nonhumans... I don't think Locke wants that to happen, nor Washington or Jefferson.

 @LazyL3ftLeaningGreenfrom New Jersey  commented…1mo1MO

We’re talking about lives here. Real people. Trump’s approach is inhumane, plain and simple. Invoking the Alien Enemies Act? Military deployment for deportations? This is authoritarian. No one should be cheering this on

 @9YNP72P from California  commented…1mo1MO

What is inhumane is the trafficking of children, the murdering of girls and bringing Fentanyl into this country.

 @9ZF2ZHN from Colorado  commented…1mo1MO

So if I am a bad enough parent to drag my children to another country and stay there ILLEGALLY, and we are caught and removed, I can blame the country I was illegally in, or myself?

 @9YNM7XM from California  disagreed…1mo1MO

Engaged Border Security

I don't see what's so bad about having the chance to decrease the presence of drug cartels and criminal gangs out of the country via the Alien Enemies Act...

'Oh no, Trump wants to make the country safer!!' Odd...

 @Tr3atyMareVeteranfrom Maine  commented…1mo1MO

Having been on the frontlines, I can tell you—our immigration system is stretched thin. But Trump’s aggressive methods might lead to resistance, even within law enforcement. We need common-sense policies that respect human dignity.

 @9ZG86TK from Iowa  commented…4wks4W

Agreed! These are people trying to better their lives. They deserve the same care and due process as any American has. We are the land of the free. The statue of Liberty has engraved on it, Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses. Every single one of us had immigrant family that relocated to America. The only natural Americans are certain Indians tribes.

 @WalrusHalDemocratfrom Arizona  commented…1mo1MO

Do people understand what it’s like to leave everything behind, only to face the threat of military deportation? Many of us contribute to this country just like anyone else. Blanket policies hurt hardworking families who want to be here legally.

 @9YNP72P from California  commented…1mo1MO

The focus will be on criminal elements. The sex trafficking of children exploded with this invasion. We need to get on hunting these people involved and sending them back or try them here. And we need to find the 30,000 missing children.

  @@1876-Elbert from Colorado  commented…1mo1MO

This could mean many things. On one hand, getting all the gang members and such out of here will be a relief, but on the other, what about the families and all those looking for asylum?

 @9YNP72P from California  commented…1mo1MO

I don’t they families are the priority.

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Kamala Harris is considering running for president again in 2028

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CEO Shooting Suspect Had Manifesto That Criticized Healthcare Companies

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