Latino Families Without Documents Fear Being Separated By Deportation

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants living in the United States became one of President Donald Trump's workhorses during his career toward the White House.

He not only promised to initiate a massive deportation, but also the construction of a wall on the border and which he continues to affirm will be paid by Mexico. So far, with his controversial executive orders, the president seems to be firmly in his position to directly attack the undocumented.

The recent raids in different parts of the country have left hundreds of people detained by the authorities after having no papers. According to the government, in these sudden ambushes the vast majority of people were arrested for having criminal charges against them.

“I understand what he says but he grew up with privileges. He never had to live in poverty. She has never lived in fear,” Tania Báez, 26, who arrived in the country as a child, told the New York Times about the position Trump has taken against undocumented immigrants.

"I think if he saw the life of an immigrant he would change his mind," added Báez, a preschool teacher and also the daughter of Jeanette Vizguerra, a 45-year-old woman who has decided to take refuge with her three younger children in the basement of a church. from Denver for fear of being deported.

“I made a promise to my children that it would not be easy to get me out of this country. I have struggled for a long time to be here. This is not a time to give up,”said Vizguerra, who has been a tireless worker since she came to the United States 20 years ago.

The same fear of being deported is also lived in the flesh by the Chávez family, a resident of the city of Tacoma in Washington state, since his father and husband Armando Chávez was detained by the immigration authorities for not having documents, after a car accident.

As shared by a report from online site Komo News, the family fears that Armando could be deported to Mexico in a matter of days.

Multiple cases such as that of the Vizguerra and Chávez come to light daily, increasing the fear of many of being forced to leave a country that they have called home for years and that they came looking for new opportunities.