{"id":68682,"date":"2024-11-19T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T18:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=68682"},"modified":"2024-11-20T10:13:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T18:13:02","slug":"what-trumps-immigration-plans-mean-for-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=68682","title":{"rendered":"What Trump\u2019s Immigration Plans Mean for the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"
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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to launch the largest deportation program in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to launch the largest deportation program in U.S. history.<\/p>\n

This was estimated by Vice President-elect JD Vance to involve one million removals yearly.<\/p>\n

Can the U.S. afford these policies? What do these crackdowns mean for undocumented and legal immigrants?<\/p>\n

Mass deportation<\/h2>\n

Based on Census data surveys, there are an\u00a0estimated<\/a>\u00a011.7 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. as of July 2023 \u2014 about 3.5% of the total population, and up 800,000 from the previous July.<\/p>\n

The all-time peak is 12 million immigrants, reached in 2008.<\/p>\n

The highest year of deportations from the U.S. interior is 238,000 immigrants, reached in 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently, most people we deport are already in detention. The government just picks them up \u2026 and figures out whether they\u2019re allowed to be here and how to get them back, and if the country will take them back,\u201d said Jeremy Robbins, executive director of the\u00a0American Immigration Council<\/a>, at a Friday, November 15 Ethnic Media Services briefing on Trump\u2019s promised immigration policies.<\/p>\n

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