Immigrant advocates fear Trump's policy shifts will hurt one group most: children

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Tom Homan, an ardent supporter of "zero tolerance" under Trump's first administration who was recently named by Trump to be the new "border czar," has said in media interviews that a top priority for him would be to save children smuggled into the U.S. by cartels and trafficking rings.
49% : "As Trump continues to name people to his cabinet and strategizes how to fulfill his many tough-on-immigration promises, including mass deportations, immigrant advocates and attorneys worry that one group will receive an outsized share of the punitive initiatives: children.
48% : Several lawsuits were filed to keep DACA in place, sparking a legal odyssey involving competing lawsuits and an initial ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the policy.
45% : "I have every expectation that things are going to get more serious under Trump," Harris said.
44% : Lindsey Harris, a Houston attorney whose firm helps DACA applicants, said her office has been inundated with phone calls since the Nov. 5 election from people worried about DACA disappearing and mass deportations of immigrants.
43% : Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress could try to repeal the law altogether, stripping away important protections for young migrants, said Gladis Molina, executive director of the Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights.
40% : An emboldened Trump administration, backed by a friendly Supreme Court, may continue its push to abolish DACA, ending the ability to work and protection from deportation for an estimated 500,000 recipients, advocates said.
39% : A settlement arising from a key lawsuit, Ms. L v. ICE, prohibits the government from reinstating family separation policies through at least 2031, said Lee Gelernt, an ACLU attorney who led the organization's legal challenge against family separation and other policies.
38% : DACAIn their first term, Trump officials tried to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, an Obama-era policy that shields immigrants without legal status brought to the U.S. as children from deportation and allows them to work legally in the U.S., among other benefits.
27% : The American Civil Liberties Union filed several lawsuits against the government to stop it and Trump later rescinded the practice.
24% : Mass deportationsImmigrant advocates also worry that mass deportations promised by Trump on the campaign trail would lead to families being separated, as one or both parents are deported, while children, some of them U.S. citizens, stay behind.
21% : How Trump and his advisors plan to prioritize who to deport out of the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. remains an unanswered question.

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