US Undocumented Workers Worry About Mass Deportations Under Trump Al Jazeera
go to original November 29, 2016

Hundreds of thousands of young immigrants living in the United States illegally have willingly come out of the shadows and identified themselves to the Obama administration on the promise that they would be safe from deportation and allowed to work.

Some may now regret that decision as President-elect Donald Trump has promised to immediately scrap the program that protected them.

If he does, it is not clear whether he would take action against the more than 741,000 participants of the amnesty programme. But if he decides to pursue them, the government now has their addresses, photographs and fingerprints.

...Trump made illegal immigration the cornerstone of his campaign, promising to build a massive wall along the Mexican border and deport millions of people living in the country illegally.

Once he takes office, Trump can almost immediately rescind the promised protection and can probably make the accompanying work permits void.

Read the rest at Al Jazeera

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