{"id":215863,"date":"2024-11-09T12:47:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-09T16:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=215863"},"modified":"2024-11-09T12:47:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T16:47:36","slug":"fear-in-undocumented-communities-over-trumps-mass-deportation-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/fear-in-undocumented-communities-over-trumps-mass-deportation-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear in undocumented communities over Trump\u2019s mass deportation threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"antig-2821743468\" class=\"antig-ecab antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-964780123\" class=\"antig-before-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/medicalbenefitsscheme\" aria-label=\"ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1200\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1200\/h:400\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:341\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/ce741a73-c70c-446b-af7f-da2abe2b62bb.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"400\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>SOURCE : GUARDIAN- Fear is rippling through undocumented communities across the US as\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0prepares to take the White House, promising record deportations after an election campaign filled with xenophobic hate speech and a first term marked by anti-immigration crackdowns.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2209018368\" class=\"antig-content_5 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"ABLP_Red-&#038;-Reddy_Web_1000x250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the final run-up to the presidential election, Areli Hernandez traveled to Phoenix to talk to voters about what mass deportations and, for many, a new form of\u00a0family separation\u00a0could mean for millions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hernandez said it was her own story that inspired her to sign up for the volunteer work in Arizona: as an undocumented person, her life in the US was on the line too.<\/p><div id=\"antig-1382424551\" class=\"antig-content_4 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div><div id=\"antig-1702562381\" class=\"antig-content_12 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ablpag\" aria-label=\"ABLP_Red-&#038;-Reddy_Web_1000x250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ABLP_Red-Reddy_Web_1000x250.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI remember when Donald Trump first came into power, every immigrant in my community was afraid to get picked up by immigration officials,\u201d said Hernandez, who was born in Mexico and brought to California as a child in the late 1980s.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2900893769\" class=\"antig-content antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiguabarbudaculinarymonth.com\/\" aria-label=\"culinary\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:843\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:132\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:450\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:337\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:675\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:842\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/culinary-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1124\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"d3b753c7-6fe8-44cb-b4b4-310a0ecae7b8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2024\/oct\/31\/election-trump-immigration-policies\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2da2049eead7191be2da286d30932bc869d7fc56\/0_0_3000_1800\/master\/3000.jpg?width=460&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9c1961dc03b5e673e2fbc8d71e352cf5\" alt=\"composite image of person's mouth and people holding signs and US flag\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd I know now that there\u2019s a lot of people scared, asking themselves: \u2018What am I going to do?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Trump\u2019s\u00a0victory over\u00a0Kamala Harris, he\u2019s expected to fulfill his\u00a0campaign pledge\u00a0to unleash the biggest mass deportation of undocumented people \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2024\/oct\/31\/election-trump-immigration-policies\">in US history<\/a>\u201d.<\/p><div id=\"antig-1265075834\" class=\"antig-content_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.com\/antigua\/\" aria-label=\"500X500 (1)\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:500\/h:500\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:300\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:150\/h:150\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/500X500-1.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He frequently calls people crossing the US-Mexico border without authorization \u201can invasion\u201d, including those requesting\u00a0asylum from\u00a0oppression, war, gang violence, domestic violence or\u00a0climate crisis-driven\u00a0poverty, referring to the US\u00a0as \u201can occupied country\u201d, and falsely blaming migrants\u00a0for crime\u00a0and economic woes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many families in the US now face being torn apart.<\/p><div id=\"antig-2594072591\" class=\"antig-content_3 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chtamarketplace.com\/\" aria-label=\"Social FaceBook Cover Desk_Mobile\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:711\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:711\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:111\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:379\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:285\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1536\/h:569\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1920\/h:711\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Social-FaceBook-Cover-Desk_Mobile-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"2560\" height=\"949\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s estimated that a million deportations a year could cost $967.9bn in federal spending over a decade,\u00a0according to the American Immigration Council, which would require congressional approval and trigger an \u201ceconomic disaster\u201d. And Trump told Time\u00a0earlier this year: \u201cIf I thought things were getting out of control, I would have no problem using the military.\u201d<\/p><div id=\"antig-1188145659\" class=\"antig-content_6 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/discoverflow.co\/web\/antigua\" aria-label=\"ANU CVP Digital Broadband 1200x400_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1201\/h:401\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1201w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:100\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1024\/h:342\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:256\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ANU-CVP-Digital-Broadband-1200x400_1-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1201\" height=\"401\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Immigration experts acknowledge that Trump\u2019s notion will require major infrastructure, including\u00a0new detentions camps, and they expect him to do what he says he plans to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of people in our community living in mixed-status families, so mass deportations are a direct threat,\u201d said Lindsay Toczylowski, executive director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, a social justice law firm based in Los Angeles that serves people facing deportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added: \u201cThe [2016] Trump administration has shown a disdain for immigrant children in the past, so it\u2019s going to require organizers working with lawyers, working with communities, and we intend to challenge him in the courts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are at least 11 million undocumented people living in the US,\u00a0according to the Pew Research Center. As of 2022, about 4.4 million US-born children under 18 live with an unauthorized immigrant parent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/us-government-reaches-settlement-class-action-family-separation-case-seeking-injunctive\">In 2023<\/a>, a California judge approved a court settlement that will prohibit immigration officials from reviving the first Trump administration\u2019s so-called zero-tolerance policy of separating families immediately at the border, for the next eight years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advocates warned that in his attempt to \u201csecure the border\u201d, Trump was likely to fulfill his pledge\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/caucus\/2024\/01\/03\/donald-trump-joe-biden-border-disaster\/72093156007\/\">to restore<\/a>\u00a0many of his controversial immigration programs, such as the policy known as Remain in Mexico, which Joe\u00a0Biden ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"923d94e6-4b8a-4e07-ae93-5b2da8a1b377\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/oct\/30\/trump-deportation-plan-economic-disaster\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/317d97f04b9bac3d630dd0deaacb0b74634a0161\/0_213_7197_4318\/master\/7197.jpg?width=460&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=764bebe0b9a04298ae263ef9e64e097c\" alt=\"FILES-US-VOTE-POLITICS-TRUMP<br&gt;(FILES) Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, on September 13, 2024. For Donald Trump patriotism is chief among virtues, yet his love of country is tempered by an apocalyptic vision of a nation plundered by criminal migrants, beset by rampant inflation and brought low by the forces of liberalism. &quot;We are a nation in decline,&quot; he declares with metronomic regularity as he vies to lead a country experiencing plunging crime and an economic boom, having led the world in the recovery from the pandemic. (Photo by Robyn Beck \/ AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK\/AFP via Getty Images)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The program forced people seeking asylum in the US to wait in Mexico while their claims were processed. Between January 2019 and June 2021,\u00a074,000 asylum seekers were sent back to Mexico, vulnerable to kidnapping, extortion and sexual violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the program violated US law because of the lack of allowing people access to counsel, so we will continue to challenge that program,\u201d Toczylowski said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Trump administration saw that program as a way for them to keep asylum seekers out of sight and out of mind, but what we saw was that people\u2019s lives were in danger. Women were raped,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s return to White House could also mean the end of the 2012 Obama policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), which, in the absence of Congress passing comprehensive immigration reform, lifted the threat of deportation for approximately 825,000 individuals, known as Dreamers, who had been previously brought to the US as children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite Trump\u2019s previous attempts to slash the program, Daca prevails\u00a0on a knife edge\u00a0and Dreamers fear fresh peril.<\/p>\n<div id=\"antig-421262788\" class=\"antig-in-comments_2 antig-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/@hadeedmotorsltd\" aria-label=\"Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2\"><img src=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:1000\/h:250\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 1000w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:300\/h:75\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 300w, https:\/\/mlavawteztbj.i.optimole.com\/w:768\/h:192\/q:mauto\/f:best\/https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Hadeed_WEB_Banner_MG-2.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" width=\"1000\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOURCE : GUARDIAN- Fear is rippling through undocumented communities across the US as\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0prepares to take the White House, promising record deportations after an election campaign filled with xenophobic hate speech and a first term marked by anti-immigration crackdowns. In the final run-up to the presidential election, Areli Hernandez traveled to Phoenix to talk to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":215864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fear in undocumented communities over Trump\u2019s mass deportation threats - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/fear-in-undocumented-communities-over-trumps-mass-deportation-threats\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fear in undocumented communities over Trump\u2019s mass deportation threats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SOURCE : GUARDIAN- Fear is rippling through undocumented communities across the US as\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0prepares to take the White House, promising record deportations after an election campaign filled with xenophobic hate speech and a first term marked by anti-immigration crackdowns. 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