Since his first presidential run, the immigration meteorics of President Donald Trump was laser -oriented on building walls and banning ‘bad hombres’. I think it’s great or hate it, the logic was clear: check the border and deport that “bring crime” quickly in the country.
However, the focus of Trump was driven away six months after his second term. A new report from the American immigration Council shows that instead of focusing on criminals and bad actors, the Trump government now focuses on authority-abiding immigrants, including many long-term and appreciated members of our communities.
This is not what Americans expected, and it is not what we want. A recent Gallup survey showed that only 30% of us want less immigration, while a record-high 79% say that immigration is good for the country. Even those who worry about border crossings do not want to hold or bother our neighbors.
A split photo of President Donald Trump and demonstrators who demonstrate against Trump’s immigration policy. Photos by getty images (Getty)
The data clearly shows that ICE has shifted in recent months to aiming non -criminal immigrants. After Trump’s inauguration, more than three -quarters of ice prisoners had criminal registers. Nowadays, however, there are hardly half of the prisoners in legal problems; The rest are authority -abiding people scooped up by agents who would like to grab bonuses to meet detention quota.
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But such intimidation is the natural consequence of the insistence of the Trump government to demonizing authorities -abiding immigrants. The Trump government has all the temporary protected status (TPS) of nearly 1 million people withdrew and withdrew hundreds of thousands of humanitarian visas. At night, all those people – who came here with the government’s permission – were commissioned to pack their bags.
That is a cruel policy, and a policy that is struggling with labor shortages – of a quarter of a million legal employees. It does untold damage to companies: nationwide, a quarter of the construction workers and more than half of the specialist traders such as painters and roofers are born abroad, which drives an industry that contributes 4.5% of the American GDP.
The AIC report shows how the approach to the administration takes place. In February 2025, Ice held a Venezuelan asylum seeker with the name Yapa as he went to work. They took his ID and work permit issued by the government and then held him hundreds of kilometers from his house. His American partner Kaelyn went into debt and tried to get legal assistance on his behalf. She said, “People would tell me,” Oh, you react exaggerated. This is not Germany from the 1930s. ” And I would say, “Yes, but it starts to feel that way.” “
Beatriz, an immigration lawyer who previously represented children, has seen the government places children in foster care or even detention after their caregivers have been detained. In some cases, the government has refused to tell the children’s lawyers where their carers are being held. “It is something that none of my superiors – including people who worked during the first term of Trump – have ever experienced before,” she says.
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Then there is Axel, a dreamer who was brought here at the age of 7 from Guatemala, won a stock exchange for Duke and became the first in his family to go to the university. His successes were made possible by the deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allowed him to live, work and dream of a future in the United States.
Now the Scattershot policy of Trump Axel has left that future in second place. He repeatedly stopped at “random” traffic stops and grilled about his immigration status. He has seen members of his community held by Ice on the way to work or school. In fact, this summer, the Ministry of Domestic Security warned that the 530,000 Daca recipients of America “can be subjected to arrest and deportation”, leaving a large number of hard-working young people terrified and confused about their place in our communities.
Even immigrants who have won green cards or citizenship are influenced. Random travel prohibitions have 4.3 million legal American residents-in-law, including 2.4 million American citizens left without loved ones to live with them, or even to organize family members for short-term visits.
As the child of immigrants himself, I am shocked to see America close its doors for others. My parents came from India in the sixties so that my father could work as a national surgeon. That is why thousands of his patients received high -quality health care and I was proud of the American American grew up and I devoted a life in public service.
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But now the Trump government even threatens to be ‘denaturalizing’ and to deport American citizens. That is a complex legal process that will happen unlikely to scale. But it is a clear attempt to intimidate immigrants who played through the rules, have built his life here and have made the ultimate dedication to our great nation by becoming American citizens.
Such stories expose the reality of President Trump’s immigration policy. With three and a half years left from the Trump presidency, it is time for our legislators, our local leaders and all of us to stand on. We must make it clear that although border protection is a major problem, authorities remain welcome in communities throughout America.
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