17 Jan 2025
Undocumented migrants fear Trump’s ‘largest deportation programme’
Guillermo Galdos
For undocumented migrants across the US, fears – of a knock on the door from the authorities, of potential separation from their children, of the loss of the lives they’ve built up here – are becoming very real.
As Donald Trump takes office for a second time, people across the US are about to find out what his policies look like in reality.
During a heated election campaign, there was one promise Trump repeated at every rally – to launch the “largest deportation programme in American history”, in a bid to drastically reduce the number of undocumented migrants, and deter illegal crossings at the southern border.
Deportations on that scale would likely face huge logistical, financial and legal hurdles, and there’s been much speculation about how they could work in practice.
One thing is certain, though: for America’s estimated eleven million undocumented migrants, Trump’s plans are a source of major concern.
Many of them have lived in the US for years, building lives and carrying out low-paid work that most American citizens avoid.
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