Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda Will Be Even Harder to Stop a Second Time
A second Trump administration plans to launch a "blitz" of mass deportations by leveraging the Insurrection Act, deploying the military, and constructing massive internment camps on the Southern Border to bypass local sanctuary city protections. Immigrant rights advocates warn that this "first term on steroids" will be harder to stop due to a more conservative federal judiciary and state laws in places like Texas and Florida that deputize local police for immigration enforcement. RAICES has been vocal in its opposition, with director Javier Hidalgo criticizing the erosion of humanitarian protections and the sacrifice of Black and Brown lives for political gain. As ICE prepares to scale up indiscriminate enforcement targeting asylum seekers, DACA recipients, and those with Temporary Protected Status (TPS), RAICES remains committed to providing legal defense and challenging the "catastrophic" impact these immigration policies would have on family separation and the U.S. economy.
