Summary
Fear is spreading among undocumented communities in the U.S. as Trump prepares to return to the White House, pledging the largest mass deportation “in U.S. history.”
Advocates warn this could mean separation for millions in mixed-status families, and would require significant infrastructure, including detention camps, potentially costing $968 billion over a decade.
Trump also plans to revive harsh policies like “Remain in Mexico,” affecting 74,000 asylum seekers, and to dismantle Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the 2012 Obama policy protecting about 825,000 “Dreamers” from deportation.
Additionally, he has threatened to revoke protections for Haitian and Gazan refugees and reimpose a travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries.
Why would he do that? It’s clear the average American voter doesn’t care about immigration and neither do the legal immigrants living here who voted Republican. Immigration is no longer a wedge issue for Democrats.
To protect people’s families from being ripped apart for one. Also it will destabilize the local economy if they deport them too fast. Hundreds of thousands of jobs disappearing and the same amount of people no longer paying local taxes like sales tax and buying things. It will basically create a mini recession in some areas.