Is the Self-Deporting Beginning? Probably Not.
By Ward Clark | 5:30 PM on January 17, 2025
The Trump administration will be taking back the reins of power in only a matter of hours now. Policies regarding illegal immigration are about to take a 180-degree turn. Tom "The Hammer" Homan will be the point man in enforcing immigration law, arranging mass deportations of the hordes here illegally, and closing down the border.
There are some indications that some of the people here illegally have seen the writing on the wall and are beginning to self-deport. But is it enough to make a difference?
Probably not. That's not the kind of self-deporting described here:
Michel Bérrios left the United States a few days before the new year, giving President-elect Donald Trump's campaign for mass deportations a small victory before they even started.
A former leader of a Nicaraguan student uprising, Bérrios had been in the U.S. legally, with nearly a year remaining under President Joe Biden's unprecedented use of humanitarian parole authority for citizens of certain vulnerable countries. But harsh talk during the U.S. election campaign filled her with anxious memories of hiding from authorities back home.
https://www.alipac.us/f12/self-deporting-beginning-probably-not-426150/
