By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-23 15:44:00 | Updated at 2024-11-23 17:55:47
2 hours ago
Trump’s mass deportations could split 4 million mixed-status families. How one is getting ready.
NBC News | Comcast ^ | November 22, 2024 | By Didi Martinez (D-NBC)
Posted on 11/23/2024 7:35:58 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Migrant families and immigration advocacy groups are preparing for millions of families to potentially be separated from each other during the mass deportations planned by President-elect Donald Trump.
In states like Arizona, Colorado and Pennsylvania, mixed-status families, asylum-seekers and advocates say they are planning for scenarios where children could be separated from their parents.
In Pennsylvania, Lillie, a U.S. citizen who did not want to use her last name out of concern for her family’s safety, has been married to her undocumented husband from Honduras for 10 years. Last week, she took her U.S.-born children to get their passports and plans to get a power of attorney drawn up in the event her husband gets deported, she said.
“If something happens and my husband is detained or he’s deported, it would be very difficult for me to get passports for my children, for our children, to be able to leave the country to go see him,” she said.
Her husband was detained back in 2017, during the last Trump administration, for about two months. The experience has affected him “mentally and emotionally,” she said.
“He’s made it clear that if it were to happen again, it would not be ‘Let’s stay and fight,’” Lillie said. “It would be ‘Let’s just go,’ because he does not want to stay in detention again.”
Scenes of asylum-seeker encampments in nonborder cities as well as high-profile crimes committed by immigrants contributed to immigration becoming a key issue in this year’s election in states like Arizona that helped Trump return to the White House.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: deportations; election2024; illegalaliens; invasion
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
trump will not break up any families....he will deport the whole family. they already said that. the media just likes to stir the pot,
2 posted on 11/23/2024 7:38:39 AM PST by Sacajaweau
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Nothing prevents her from moving out of the country with her husband.
3 posted on 11/23/2024 7:38:40 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
An Illegal dropping a kid in the US should not be dropping a US citizen
4 posted on 11/23/2024 7:39:38 AM PST by butlerweave
To: Oldeconomybuyer
That’s how migration has worked for millennia. If someone moves to another part of the world, the rest of the family stays behind and, maybe, follows later on. Or stays behind because they don’t care to move.
5 posted on 11/23/2024 7:39:57 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Just tell them to go home. They can all meet up again there. Azhos split their own families to illegally sneak into America. Splitting their families isn’t our problem. The azhos sent their unaccompanied toddlers up the trail with murderers and cartel members. Sometimes even alone. Screw them.
6 posted on 11/23/2024 7:40:00 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (This Thanksgiving, spay and neuter your liberal RAT family members.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If your wife is getting deported and you don’t go with her, what does that say about you?
7 posted on 11/23/2024 7:41:23 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Like Tom Homan said, they can all move together to Venezuela or wherever.
8 posted on 11/23/2024 7:41:26 AM PST by SmokingJoe
To: Oldeconomybuyer
9 posted on 11/23/2024 7:41:28 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
All their bags are packed, they’re ready to go....
10 posted on 11/23/2024 7:42:14 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Those capable of critical thought no longer give a s***. If they’re illegal get them the hell out of this country.
11 posted on 11/23/2024 7:42:53 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
If she is married to him, he won’t be deported. That’s not how it works. This is just misinformation
12 posted on 11/23/2024 7:43:12 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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