Customs and border defense detains a person outside an immigration and customs building during a protest in Portland, Oregon, June 14, 2025. AP photo/Jenny Kane, file
Thehefirsttime I learned about Donald Trump’s political aspirations in 2015 when he announced his intention to run for president and make a speech stating that Mexico is Sending dozens of abusers across the borderS
As an immigrant from Mexico, his hearing to talk about my community was in this way. But like many others, I didn’t think he could actually rise to power, Given his political inexperience and, well, his personalityS
Ten years later, and just a few months after its second presidential term, Trump is just as impatient as clearing the United States from its Latin American immigrants. This time he realizes that it will not be as easy as he thought.
When he started his second presidential term, Trump was ambitious. White House Deputy Chief Stephen Miller announced in May that immigration and customs implementation would seek to arrest at least 3,000 immigrants a day to achieve the goals of the administration’s mass deportation, such as the administration, such as severalcommercialreportedS
The number is foreign; He is assumed to be looking for people who have committed crimes but those who pay attention Seeing it playing differentlyS
In a lawsuit last week, the Ministry of Justice’s attorneys said the Ministry of Internal Security had never actually set such a quota for arrests and deportations, Reports The GuardianS
This sudden amnesia for this exalted quota feels a little suspicious. Trump’s entire campaign was held in the prerequisite for arrest and deportation the most unsuccessful people as possibleS In the process of trying to get rid of them, it seems that Trump learns how beautifully intertwined immigrants are in the fabric of this country.
The retreat of this 3K quota per day can be reduced to the reality that there are no almost as undocumented criminals as the administration hoped. Ice has resorted to the arrest of people who are leaving immigration courtsSome of which are in the middle of the search for legal asylum. Even when it is claimed to have played dirty, the administration managed to deport only about 700 people a day. On top of that, 65% of immigrants detained since last October have no penaltyAccording to the Cato Institute.
It is fascinating to see the administration encounter the limitations of its own story about immigrants. The way I see him, his only choice now is to try to puzzles us and say There has never been a goal How many people wanted to arrest and deport.
However, it makes sense when you think there is approximately 11 million undocumented people In the US, most of which are contributing to and deeply rooted in our communities and our economy – so much so that Agricultural industry He even reflected back on mass deportations.
Growing up in Texas, my family had friends who first arrived in the United States without documents and eventually received citizenship. Some of them continued to become doctors, teachers or had their own business. Their status was not something they were talking about openly, and it was probably not something the people around them knew. What many do not realize is that there are huge financial and social barriers to obtain US citizenship that make it difficult for most. Some immigrants even have to win a lottery to enter – literallyS
When I was 15, the immigration status of my own family was challenged and we had to leave the US when we did, many of my friends were shocked – I spoke freely English and I was active in school activities and they just assumed that I was like any other American child. Like millions of others, we did not fit well in any of Trump’s stereotypes about who the immigrants were.
These stereotypes, instead of fading, as this country becomes more and more diverse, intensify even more during this administration. It’s time to check reality.