Trump might become the most pro-illegal immigration president ever - Catherine Rampell

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One thing I said before the election is that his mass deportation effort is not going to be the 11 million (or however many millions that Republicans pull out of their asses) that are undocumented people that are hard to track and catch, the so-called unvetted "gotaways" that Republicans loved to bitch about during the Obama years. It's going to be made up of people who are the easiest to find, the people that aren't hiding, the people that reported themselves and went through whatever process there was to gain legal authorization to be in the US. It's going to be the mostly documented people who are caught and deported.

If they can't boost their deportation numbers with undocumented people, they will create new undocumented people with those who are the easiest to find. They want to boost deportation numbers as much they possibly can. Reading this article brought me back to that thought I had.

You might not have noticed it, but last week the number of undocumented immigrants in the United States surged by 350,000.

Don’t worry, an army of gangbangers and other criminals didn’t charge the border. Rather, President Donald Trump simply decided to turn 350,000 legal immigrants into illegal ones.

Trump has been fearmongering about an “invasion” of unauthorized immigrants for years. Since retaking the White House, he has attempted to manifest those fever dreams into reality through a “de-documentation” campaign. This is not an immigration agenda that targets criminals; it’s one that criminalizes immigrants who have followed the law, by stripping them of their existing visas and work permits.

The 350,000 people de-documented last week are Venezuelans who had permission to live and work in the United States — subject to screening and other conditions — under a program known as temporary protected status. TPS was created in 1990 to shield immigrants from countries experiencing war or other catastrophes that make it unsafe for them to return home.

Returning to Venezuela is dangerous because it’s ruled by a brutal socialist dictator who has caused widespread hunger and other humanitarian crises. Not long ago, Republican politicians wanted the United States to be a haven for victims of socialism, so they welcomed Venezuelans to our shores. In fact, Secretary of State Marco Rubio championed TPS for Venezuelans when he was a U.S. senator.

Scratch that. With this latest ruling, within about a week Trump has increased the number of "illegal" immigrants living in this country by 850k+
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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T14:52:42.906Z

Trump says we're overrun by "illegals." He's manifested those fever dreams into reality through a “de-documentation” campaign, stripping legal immigrants of their visas & work permits.
He's not targeting criminals; he's criminalizing immigrants who follow the law.
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— Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 2025-05-30T17:28:08.381Z

[J_William_Ryan]

1. These are immigrants lawfully in the country -

neither undocumented nor ‘illegal’ – immigrants who are not criminals, immigrants of color.

Trump’s immigration agenda is motivated by racism, bigotry, and hate.

[Permanut]

2. Guy in the picture..

has "SACRIFICE" tattoo on left forearm.

Just sayin'.