With President-elect Trump's hardline immigration agenda looming, advocacy groups are actively educating immigrants about their rights and preparing them for potential changes.
As the United States prepares for President-elect Donald Trump to implement a strict immigration policy, advocacy groups are advising immigrants on their rights and necessary precautions amid heightened fears of mass deportations. Workshops, like one hosted by the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, emphasize strategies such as designating caregivers for children, understanding the importance of a judicial warrant, and exercising the right to remain silent.
'We already know this administration,' Winston Leiva told participants of a bilingual workshop in Los Angeles for immigrants who wish to remain in the United States. 'The truth is we don't know to what extent it will affect us.' Trump made strict immigration measures a central component of his return to the White House. His second administration's agenda includes mass deportations and ending birthright citizenship for the children of immigrants, which would overturn 120 years of precedent. Amid concerns about the administration's plan to end birthright citizenship, advocacy groups have reassured immigrants of their rights. Hollie Webb, the supervising attorney for Al Otro Lado's Border Rights Project, told Newsweek: 'The 14th amendment is extremely clear—it says that 'all persons born or naturalized in the United States' are citizens. The Supreme Court reaffirmed in 1898 that those words mean what they say—if you're born in the U.S., you are a citizen.' 'We're going to end that because it's ridiculous,' Trump said in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press on December 8. In an interview with Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, CNN's Kaitlan Collins said Trump's pledge to end birthright citizenship 'is no easy feat, given that it is enshrined in the Constitution.' 'I kind of disagree with you. I don't think it's enshrined in the Constitution at all—not the way I read it,' Homan replied. 'But then again, I'm not a constitutional scholar.
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