Customs and border protection detains the man for the immigration and customs building during the protest in Portland, Oregon, 2025. June 14th AP photo/jenny kane, file
firsttime I learned about Donald Trump’s political aspirations in 2015 when he announced his intention to run for a president and told a speech stating that Mexico is By sending many violent criminals across the border;
As an immigrant from Mexico, hearing it about my community in this way. But like many others, I didn’t think he could actually get up to power, In view of his political inexperience and, well, his personality;
Ten years later and just a few months after his second term of president, Trump also wants to clean US Latin American immigrants. This time he realizes that it will not be as easy as he thought.
When he began his second term of President, Trump was ambitious. Stephen Miller, Deputy Chief of Staff of the White House, announced in May that immigration and customs will seek to arrest at least 3,000 immigrants per day to achieve the administration’s mass deportation goals as a fewOutletreported;
The number is a stranger; It is believed that he is looking for people who have committed crimes but draw attention to those Seeing that this is playing differently;
The lawyers of the Department of Justice in the court submitted last week said the Homeland Security Department had actually never found such arrests and deportations quota, The Guardian reported;
This sudden amnesia about that noble quota feels a bit suspected. Trump’s entire campaign was carried out in view of the assumption of arrest and deportation as many documents that have no documents; When trying to get rid of them, it seems short to learn how beautifully confused immigrants are in the tissue of this country.
Back to this 3K day quota may be the reality that there are almost as many as the administration that the administration expected. Ice has taken the arrest of people who are leaving the courts of immigrationSome of them seek legal refuge. Even with allegedly playing dirty, the administration was able to deport only about 700 people a day. In addition, 65% of immigrants detained since October last year Have noAccording to the CATO Institute.
It is interesting to see that the administration is facing its narrative restrictions on immigrants. It’s, as I see, the only choice now is to try to and say and say There was never a goal For how many people she wanted to arrest and deport.
Nevertheless it makes sense when you think there is approximately 11 million documents without people USA, most of whom are contributes to and deeply established in our communities and the economy – so much that Agricultural industry even retreated from mass deportations.
As Texas grew up, my family had friends who first came to the United States and eventually acquired citizenship. Some of them became doctors, teachers or had their own business. Their status was not something they talked about openly, and probably not what the people around them knew. Many do not realize that there are enormous financial and social barriers to acquire US citizenship, which makes it quite difficult. Some immigrants even have to win a lottery to get – literally;
When I was 15, my own family’s immigration status was challenged and we had to leave the US when we did, many of my friends were shocked – I spoke fluent English and actively at school, and they just thought I was like any other American child. Like millions others, we did not allow any of Trump’s stereotypes about what immigrants are.
These stereotypes, instead of fading as this country becomes more diverse, is further strengthened during this administration. It’s time to check reality.