IMMIGRANT NONPROFIT PREPARING FOR 'PERFECT STORM' OF ANTI-IMMIGRANT POLICIES
Donald Trump will take the oath of office on Jan. 20, and law offices and nonprofit organizations across the country are warily counting down the days—and bracing for what’s to come. That includes Raíces, a Texas-based refugee and immigrant center for education and legal services.
Given Trump’s wall-building, family-separating track record during his first term and his present-day mass deportation threats, this nonprofit in particular is preparing for everything.
"We experienced the trauma of the first Trump administration firsthand,” Raíces spokesperson Faisal Al-Juburi told Daily Kos.
Some of the xenophobic Trump administration’s first-term “wins” included slashing the rate of legal immigration and denying green cards to abandoned children or young people fleeing abusive homes.
Notably, Trump has changed his tune regarding legal immigration for certain workers in the heated H-1B visa debate that’s currently tearing MAGA world apart. It seems Trump and his tech billionaire sugar daddies are happy to welcome immigrants—so long as they don’t come from the Southern border and are willing to work for their businesses at low wages.
As for the border battle still raging in the Southern U.S., Raíces isn’t taking any chances ahead of Trump’s second term.
