Sergio Martinez Beltran
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NPR News: 01-21-2025 6PM EST
Holman declined to provide specific information on the locations of the operations, citing concerns over the safety of immigration officials. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Washington.
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NPR News: 01-21-2025 6PM EST
Holman told CNN the administration is not conducting mass raids, but targeted enforcement operations. The priority is migrants who do not have legal status and have committed crimes. But Holman warned there will be collateral arrests.
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NPR News: 01-17-2025 8PM EST
Did you know Keats? Keats? No, I didn't. And I didn't know Shakespeare or Chaucer either.
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NPR News: 01-17-2025 8PM EST
National and local organizations advocating for immigrants say they are anticipating a range of scenarios.
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NPR News: 01-17-2025 8PM EST
Felicia Gomez, a senior policy advocate at the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, says her group has led Know Your Rights training for migrants in different languages. It's also putting in teams to respond rapidly to potential at-home and workplace raids. Trump has said he will start mass deportations on day one.
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NPR News: 01-17-2025 8PM EST
According to an NPR-PBS News Marist poll released this week, 49% of Americans approve of mass deportations. Sergio Martinez Beltran, NPR News, Washington.
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NPR News: 11-11-2024 2PM EST
Tom Homan's appointment is not a surprise. Trump had suggested he would be in charge of fulfilling the campaign promise of mass deportations. Hohmann was the architect of Trump's zero-tolerance policy, which separated thousands of immigrant kids from their parents at the US southern border.
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Hohmann has already suggested that deporting families together, including children who are US citizens but whose parents are undocumented, would ensure no families are separated this time. Under President Obama, Hohmann led enforcement and removal operations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. During that administration, ICE carried out a record number of deportations.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
Good morning, Leila.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
Yeah, so this one program is known as the CHNV Parole, and it was specifically for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. People from those countries were allowed to come into the U.S. as long as they had a sponsor and passed a background check. Now, most, if not all, of these people are fleeing violence.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
Like Reginald Daniel and his son Tristan, they left Haiti about a year ago after gang violence became unbearable.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
Daniel's sister is sponsoring them. She tells me the parole was a saving grace sent by God for her family and says she's praying for the program to continue. But President Trump has canceled all parole programs.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
Yeah, the CBP One app allowed asylum seekers to schedule an appointment at a port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security says more than 936,000 people were legally allowed in the country this way since 2023. Now, some in the Trump administration say that these Biden-era parole programs were being abused. I talked to Dan Stein.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
He's the president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform and supports Trump's changes.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
You know, Leila, there's a lot of uncertainty and fear. Trump has empowered immigration officers to quickly remove those who came via the parole programs. He's expanded what is known as expedited removal, which was originally only applied to migrants who had recently crossed the border.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
But the Trump administration has already moved to expand it dramatically, allowing immigration authorities to bypass parts of regular immigration law and speed up deportations. But, you know, it's one thing to issue an order. It's a lot more complicated to actually deport people. And it's unclear how that will happen.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
You've probably seen on social media, TV, or have heard here on NPR that Trump has increased the number of immigration roundups across the country.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
According to Homeland Security, yesterday there were more than 1,100 arrests. The federal government has said they're going after migrants who are in the country illegally and have a criminal record. But there have been reports of arrests of immigrants who have not committed a crime. We've also heard of people who are either citizens or legal residents and have been caught up in these raids.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
They were released, but that has caused concerns. Trump, Leila, has also moved to end birthright citizenship, but a court has blocked it from going into effect. And this is just one of multiple lawsuits challenging Trump's immigration actions.
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Justice Department Firings, Humanitarian Parole Ends, China And AI
You're welcome.