As President-elect Trump prepares to move back into the White House, immigrants in the DMV and beyond are concerned about the upcoming administration.
WASHINGTON — Inauguration Day is still more than two months away, yet Donald Trump’s vision for the country’s immigration system is already starting to manifest.
During his campaign, President-elect Trump called for mass deportations, and Gustavo Torres of CASA says those calls have put the country’s immigrant community on edge.
“People are very scared about losing their status, and the deportations,” he said. “People are ready to make sure they can respond.”
But as advocates try to put that response together, Trump’s allies are moving fast.
On Friday, a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down a Biden administration program that gives undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens a streamlined path to citizenship.
Then on Sunday night, Trump announced on Truth Social that former ICE director Tom Homan would …