Nearly three lakh Indian-Americans are likely to be impacted by the Trump administration’s sweeping plans, which put the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation.
President Donald Trump has laid the groundwork to deport millions of undocumented immigrants by issuing new guidance that drastically broaden the ways in which federal immigration laws should be enforced. “The Department no longer will exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in an enforcement memo.
“Department personnel have full authority to arrest or apprehend an alien whom an immigration officer has probable cause to believe is in violation of the immigration laws,” it said.
It has issued two enforcement memos, which among other things, tighten deportation of illegal immigrants.
Indian-Americans, going by unofficial figures, account for nearly 3 lakh illegal aliens.