For several months, President Donald Trump promised to intensify the deportation of unauthorized immigrants in the United States as part of the standard immigration policy.
Now, federal agencies have started fulfilling this promise, supported by the White House and Mr. Trump’s executive orders. On Sunday, agents of immigration and customs began to intensify operations in Chicago with the FBI and other agencies “to impose American immigration law and maintain public safety and national security through preservation He said in a statement about x. No details were provided about the number of people arrested. The Acting Deputy Prosecutor was Emile Pov in Chicago To help oversee multiple days there.
The Trump administration said its primary priority is to find and deport immigrants who are in the United States illegally and have criminal records. Opinion policy shows that this policy has great support from voters through the political spectrum, many of whom also support targeting other unauthorized immigrants. The right -wing migration came after a breakthrough from asylum seekers during the Biden administration, and turned the case into a political responsibility for Vice President Kamala Harris in the November elections.
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Public opinion on immigration has turned correctly, but the nuances remain. Americans support the deportation of criminals, and many prefer to target other unauthorized immigrants, as well as the desire for tracks to the legal status of persons committed to the law.
accident Epsos survey/New York Times I found that the vast majority of Americans, including 44 % of Democrats, have supported the deportation of individuals who illegally entered the country during the past four years. Among the respondents of Spanish origin, the support of this policy was 54 %. When asked about unauthorized immigrants who have criminal records, approximately 9 out of 10 of the respondents agreed that they should be deported.
“I think Trump is on the right track,” says John Burke, a Trump voter who runs a chicago sports card store. “I am sure that many people are good people,” says about those who target the deportation. But he adds, “Perhaps there are many people who mix and connect to the cartals.”
Mr. Trump’s policies will again test a long American tension between evaluating migrants and securing the border against an inadvertent flow. In the past few years, the public has become generally less welcome to immigrants. But while Americans support the deportation of criminals, many also say there should be paths for the legal status of persons committed to law, many of whom have lived in the United States for decades. Pi -Research Center from November I found that 43 % of the respondents who said they supported a mass deportation also said that the unauthorized population should have legal paths.
It is unlikely that the clear contradictions in public opinion will prevent President Trump from carrying out a wide deportation agenda. But they refer to accurate views on this topic, which some experts say can lead to a violent reaction if the management tactics are considered very harsh.
“In general [Americans] “Supporting the idea of deporting non -documented, in the details that you may support or not support,” says the Cardinal Braun, a former official at the Ministry of Internal Security in Bush and Obama departments. These details include arrests in churches and mosques, and separating children born in the United States from parents who have no legal status. Last Tuesday, The Ministry of National Security canceled the previous guidelines to avoid arrests In “sensitive sites” such as schools, hospitals and places of worship.
On the ground in Chicago, mixed views
In 2022, the federal government was estimated The total unauthorized population reached 11 million. This is now less, given the entry of other millions without the previous visa approvals under President Joe Biden. Among the residents of migrants who are currently lacking the legal situation, the majority came before 2010, and some have spent contracts in the United States and put their roots.
Marco Duran crossed the southern border of his Mexico hometown in the eighties of the last century, at the age of fourth. He and his parents benefited from the amnesty programs during the era of President Ronald Reagan, who granted a legal status to millions of unauthorized immigrants. Today is an American citizen, running a crowded tires store in Bilsen, a diverse neighborhood in Chicago, where many people began to prepare for the raids with ice after the news leaked that the city would be the first goal of the efforts of the deportation of Mr. Trump.
The ice winds wandered in the streets, sat in a jacket and a bispol hat with the ear pies inside his office. He was wearing thin rubber gloves to protect his hands from changes from tires; Tires are crowded around his office.
Mr. Duran opposes the deportation simply because people have no legal or sexual residence. It is not good to work; His customers tell him that they are concerned about sending them home. He says criminals should be intended to be removed by ice, but this is related to. He says: “If they are criminals and they have a record, then I agree with him.” “If a person is a working person, and he has a family, he is a provider and is a member of society, I am not approved.”
Mr. Duran did not vote in November, saying that he was not satisfied with his options. Erika Gonzalez, who runs a haircut near her husband, voted for Mr. Trump because she liked the difficult immigration policy. She was born in the United States to Mexican Parents, and she is concerned about pressure on Chicago public services in large numbers of new immigrants from Venezuela under the leadership of President Biden.
Mrs. Gonzales supports the deportation of those who have criminal records. But despite her vote for Mr. Trump, she says that she is not on board with a mass deportation, especially not immigrants who have built a new life for decades. They are her neighbors, and she does not want to target them.
“There are many people who come to the United States to work, to get a better life. She says:“ People follow the rules and pay taxes. ”Some people here were 30 years. They have their own home, they have a small company …. What will happen To them?
The economic impact of collective deportation is unknown from the administration that promised to increase prosperity and low prices. “Many of these people are in low -wage jobs, basic workers,” says William Fry, a older -based colleague in the Brookings Metro in Washington.
The expulsion of unauthorized immigrants with the places of barriers in front of the new arrivals has long -term effects on the country’s workforce. “If we have a low migration, of the type that we had during the last Trump administration, we will not get growth in our population of work age by 2035. So it is an economic issue, not just a cultural issue,” says Mr. Fry. .
Mr. Trump also ordered this week to migrate by the refugees, who were examined and approved before entering. In the past fiscal year, more than 100,000 refugees in the United States have been resettled in more than two million immigrants who sought to resort to the United States waiting for the courts to hear their cases; The average court session is four years.
“You want people to follow laws”
In Mount Greenwood, a white working class in Chicago, it flourishes in dealing with the BIDEN administration with immigration. Mr. Trump is popular with voters who want to see a procedure on illegal immigration and reduces its demands for city services; The closure of the border is also necessary. But even here, there are reservations about group deportation.
Vince Picola has not voted for a democrats of the president since John Kennedy. He works in home cleaning work for his family, and he runs phones. “I always believe in law and order. He says when asked about immigration: If you do not have a law and it does not have a country.”
However, Mr. Pixiola, who came to the United States from Italy in 1955, forgived unauthorized immigrants, saying that this depends on those who are and their position in society. He says: “If they are here and firm and have a family, they must be given an opportunity to become citizens.”
Jim Trolia Junior is a manager at his family’s funeral home, where he has been working since childhood. He is Trump’s voter who wants to see the border closed and sent criminal immigrants home. He fears the financial burden on taxpayers from the height of new immigrants in Chicago and other cities. But he wants to see a humanitarian treatment for immigrants, especially those who lived in the United States for years without legal status and can now be held in the framework of the Trump administration.
He says: “Ethically, you do not want to see good people who have been uprooted,” he says. “But legally, you want people to follow the laws.”
Returning to Pilsen, Mrs. Gonzalez looks at the mostly empty streets outside the barber. She says this is not only the cold that keeps people inside. “People are afraid.”
Richard Mertens told Chicago. Simon Montelik and Citelin mentioned Babkok from Washington.
