Advocates warn ‘dreamers’ to lie low as Trump ramps up deportation plans
Protesters rallied in Seattle Feb. 17 outside the courthouse where a hearing was held in the case of Daniel Ramirez Medina, a “dreamer” who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Karen Ducey/Getty Images)
February 26 at 6:36 PM
Immigration lawyers and advocacy groups are advising undocumented immigrants not to enroll in a federal deferred-action program created by President Barack Obama over fears that the Trump administration will use their personal information to detain and deport them.
The caution reflects deepening anxiety over sweeping new enforcement guidelines from Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly that aim to ramp up deportations of the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants.
Kelly’s directives do not overturn the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which has granted renewable, two-year work permits to more than 750,000 immigrants who came to the country illegally as children. But lawyers said that the broad expansion of the Department of Homeland Security’s enforcement powers has heightened the risk for immigrants who have registered with the agency.
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