LOS ANGELES, CA – During the following 100 days, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, Los Angeles (CHIRLA), the largest immigrant rights organization in California, is launching a campaign named “Prepare to Stay / Prepárate para Quedarte” to meet the promised deportation threats of President-elect Donald Trump.
In short, CHIRLA said the campaign will educate, empower, and prepare the community for the uncertain days ahead of Trump’s second administration.
CHIRLA said it is calling on DACA recipients who need to renew their work permits to do so now, and for Legal Permanent Residents (LPRs) who qualify to apply for citizenship right away, for the purpose of protecting themselves and their families.
According to CHIRLA, “Given the expressed intent of the incoming Trump Administration to cause disruption, chaos, and suffering in the lives of immigrant families and communities across the country, one form of protection for persons protected by DACA is to ensure their work permit is renewed and valid for the next two years.
“For green card holders who qualify to naturalize, it is important they know that no one can take your citizenship status once granted, making this step a strong firewall protecting their future and that of their families.”
CHIRLA’s website includes a statement saying that it has been serving the immigrant community since 1986, organizing immigrants and their families to fight harmful policies and demand equity and justice from our government. The website also contains updated information on DACA resources and tools for those that may need it.
Additionally, the website notes, “CHIRLA’s staff are available to assist the community without an appointment and free of cost to those who qualify. The staff can also help applicants apply for waivers, if they qualify, to offset the government application fees.”
The Trump administration’s next target: naturalized US citizens
It appears that President-elect Donald Trump intends to keep his campaign promise to begin deporting at least 15 million people who, he claims, have been “poisoning the blood” of our country. By at least one estimate, it will be virtually impossible — logistically and financially — to implement Trump’s grandiose ambitions, but that won’t keep him from destroying countless lives while trying.
One initiative, smaller in scale but potentially devastating in its impact, will be aimed at immigrants who have become naturalized U.S. citizens.
Trump has named three deportation hardliners to key positions in his administration, including Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff for policy, Kristi Noem for secretary of Homeland Security and Tom Homan as “border czar.”
Miller is likely to be especially influential and especially brutal.
But even “documented” immigrants will not be safe, because Miller has declared that he will pursue the seldom-used process of “denaturalization” to go after people who have been citizens for years or decades, based on suspicions about purported fraud on their naturalization applications. Individuals stripped of citizenship will then be subject to deportation along with Miller’s other targets.
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/4992787-trump-deportation-plan-immigration/amp/
I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we wait and actually see what policies are implemented instead of Walter’s anti-Trump guessing game.
Waiting for something to be implemented is too late. Part of the political process is to determine *what* will be implemented. As such, your suggestion makes no sense.
So David, what exact policies are going to be implemented regarding deportation? The only thing I know for sure is illegal immigrant criminals and gang members will be deported. But I’m all ears since you seem to have inside info.
Perhaps you misspoke and meant to say “proposed” rather than “implemented”?
You didn’t answer my question.
Your question makes no sense. There is an order of things. Policies are proposed. Debated. Implemented. You seem to want to cut directly to implemented.
The key phrase is “starting with”.
The GOP platform says Trump will “begin the largest deportation program in American History,” including “the millions of illegal Migrants who Joe Biden has deliberately encouraged to invade our Country” and starting with removing “the most dangerous criminals and working with local Police.”
“All of the illegal migrants that [Vice President] Kamala [Harris] has dumped into your small towns will be going home,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Michigan in October.
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/11/trumps-agenda-deportation/
““All of the illegal migrants that [Vice President] Kamala [Harris] has dumped into your small towns will be going home,” Trump said at a campaign rally in Michigan in October.”
Trump said at a campaign rally? Lot’s of things get said during the campaign. You remember, like the Democrats said Trump is a dictator, Trump is a fascist, Trump is Hitler, but it doesn’t make it true.
Trump and his political appointees mean business this time since there is no one to provide any guardrails this time. Trump and his advisors would like nothing better than for Democrats to wait until things were underway before trying to stop them. That’s a losing political strategy.
Keith has been anti-Biden and anti-Harris from Day One. Hypocrisy much?
“Keith has been anti-Biden and anti-Harris from Day One. Hypocrisy much?”
How is that hypocrisy? Do you know how to use the word?
I believe he’s suggesting you didn’t follow a “wait and see” approach with previous administrations.
Keith, you really need to look in the mirror.
Usage — Hypocrisy is often used to describe situations where individuals or groups advocate for certain behaviors or principles that they themselves do not follow.
He then preposterously claimed that more than 13,000 undocumented “murderers” had been “released into our country over the last three years.”
“They’re walking down the streets,” he said. “They’re walking next to you and your family. And they’re very dangerous people.”
When Welker tried to point out that he was misconstruing the data, Trump doubled down: “It’s 13,099, and it’s during the Biden period of time. And these are murderers, many of whom murdered more than one person.”
This is, of course, false. The Department of Homeland Security reported that more than 13,000 noncitizens had been convicted of homicide in the U.S. over the past four decades, including during Trump’s first term. And most of them were in jails and prisons, not walking the streets.
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Unsurprisingly, farm industry groups are frantically lobbying Trump to exempt agricultural workers from deportation. Builders say mass deportation would worsen current labor shortages and drive up home costs even further.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-12-11/column-trumps-immigration-policy-is-based-on-fear-mongering-not-facts
Walter, I think Trump is referring to murderers that immigrated to our country that killed others in their home country. Not that they have committed murders here in the United States. You don’t think other countries have released many of their criminals into the U.S.? I do.
Far more of them fleeing murders – state sanctioned or otherwise.
Where is your proof Keith? How does the US. Government know immigrants committed murders in other countries? By looking at them?
David, are you and Walter denying that thousands of gang members, murderers, drug cartel members and other criminals have entered our country with the very lax immigration policies of the Biden admin in the last four years? Wake up, this is probably the biggest issue that lost you the election.
What I can tell you is that the Vanguard covers literally thousands of hearings and trials each year and has done so over the last 15 years. I’ve personally attended many many cases involving people with immigration holds and other immigration related issues, and I have also attended a number of hearings in the immigration court in Sac and SF – I have not really encountered many involving people who were accused of having committed murders in other countries. I’m not going to say that it doesn’t happen, but I don’t see the evidence for what you are claiming in my everyday experience in courts. On the other hand, far more stories have emerged of people who came to this country fleeing violence and believing that deportation will result in their murder.
It was the supposed high cost of eggs and groceries that decided the Presidential election. You still have not posted credible evidence of anything you said today Keith.
“On the other hand, far more stories have emerged of people who came to this country fleeing violence and believing that deportation will result in their murder.”
Of course that’s what they’re going to claim. Are you surprised?
In court of law you need evidence – and both sides get to present their evidence and a judge makes a ruling – you’re making it seem more fraught than it is. But that diverges from your initial point which I think you have failed to sustain and citing popular belief and votes doesn’t cut it from an evidentiary perspective.
Obviously David and Walter and a lot of other Democrats still don’t get it.
That’s why 45/47 will be calling the shots for the next four years with Vance on deck for eight more.
Here is actual concrete proof Keith instead of your opinion. Immigration was in there but not #1.
A poll published Tuesday by Navigator Research revealed that Trump’s stance on—and his ability to elevate—three key issues drastically swayed American voters at the ballot box. Those issues included inflation and the cost of living, immigration and the border, and jobs and the economy. Navigator Research surveyed 5,000 voters in the 2024 general election, some of whom self-reported as new Trump voters.
Across the survey pool, 43 percent of voters ranked inflation as their top priority, followed by a tie between immigration and the economy for second and third place with 31 percent of the vote. Swing voters and first-time Trump voters were even more concerned by those same issues, with approximately 45 percent of swing voters ranking inflation as their first priority and 55 percent of new Trump voters doing the same.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/shocking-exit-poll-reveals-why-205652822.html
Walter, you and your party lost big time.
Deal with it!
That doesn’t make your argument valid, you’re conflating issues.
That’s what all of the MAGA cult say sooner or later.
I should add after I confront them with facts they can’t refute with credible evidence.
I’m sitting at my computer right now smiling and thinking of how fast the progressive movement will be derailed over the next decade. You progressives way over reached…
You’re punting on your argument now.
“They won, we lost. Their bat, their ball. And I’m rooting for them to play great, seriously”
Guess who said that? Jeffery Katzenberg, Biden’s campaign chair.
Yes, MAGA now has the bat and ball, progressives are in the stands watching.
Deflection has become a major part of the MAGA cult way.
How’s that view from the bleachers watching MAGA on the playing field calling all the shots?
You realize you’ve completely abandoned any attempt to defend your argument, right?
Keith is very predictable in veering off-topic just like his fellow cultists.
In fairness, it’s the nature of the internets, but in this case, I specifically weighed in to address a specific point not to talk about his theories of the past election.
Trump picked as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year.
Winning…
You misspelled trolling
Yup. I just joined the club which has several members on your blog.
Why don’t you accuse them of “trolling” too?
Maybe because they come from the same politics as you?