Michelle Hackman

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Trump Allies Fear Watered Down Deportation Efforts President-elect’s team is committed to pursuing immigrants who crossed illegally, but is wary about logistical challenges and setting expectations

“When you keep excluding people from mass detention and deportation and saying ‘we’ll get the worst of the worst first’—well, guess what, that also happens to be Biden’s immigration policy.”
Trump's allies have noticed his scaled-back deportation ambitions
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Migrants Prepare for Mass Deportation: ‘Should I Just Kiss My Husband Goodbye?’ President-elect Donald Trump has talked tough on immigration before. But many immigration lawyers and civil-rights activists say this time feels different.

Migrants who entered the country illegally are working through worst-case scenario checklists to make sure—if they disappear suddenly—that someone has keys to their house, a copy of their car title and access to their children’s schools. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump Prepares for Legal Fight Over His ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Curbs Many constitutional scholars and civil-rights groups have said such a change can’t be done through executive action.

Trump's transition team is drafting several versions of his long-promised executive order to curtail automatic citizenship for anyone born in the U.S www.wsj.com/politics/pol...