Trump 47: Immigration

The Department of Homeland Security announced Friday the immediate termination of all categorical “Family Reunification Parole” programs for foreign nationals from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras, and their immediate family members.

Activists in Lake Worth Beach have accused U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers of kidnapping community members, with the help of local police, as they placed 200 posters that read “ICE kidnapped a community member here” and “Florida Highway Patrol kidnapped someone here” around the city.

As many South Florida immigrants suddenly find citizenship and green card processes paused, even Republicans like Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar are voicing criticism.

The Trump administration is pausing all immigration applications such as requests for green cards for people from 19 countries banned from travel earlier this year.

In a statement, the Coalition called the administration’s actions "yet another step in a long-running campaign to dismantle every pathway — formal, lawful, and humanitarian—that allows Black and Brown immigrants to come to the United States safely."

He is blaming immigrants for problems from crime to housing shortages as part of “social dysfunction” in America and demanding “REVERSE MIGRATION.”

The protesters marched and blocked the entrance to the immigrant detention facility to protest the aggressive deportation policies of the Trump administration. Krome is a federal government facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house suspected undocumented immigrants.

Murilo Alves, 28, is in his final year of medical school — a career path inspired by his experiences as an undocumented immigrant. Despite him saying that "everything changed" when he received DACA in 2012, Alves says he and the more than half a million Dreamers in the U.S. face an uncertain future.

In Miramar, immigration enforcement officials celebrated a Florida operation that resulted in the arrests and deportation of more than 230 people in 10 days. And they made it clear they will not make exceptions for Venezuelans who recently lost their legal status.

The Trump administration is restricting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States to 7,500 and they'll be mostly white South Africans. It's a dramatic drop after the U.S. previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution from around the world.

The "Keep Them Honest" public awareness campaign has recruited the likes of Miami Dade College President Emeritus Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón, former television news anchors Leticia Callava and Michael Putney, and former Miami Herald publisher David Lawrence Jr. to star in a series of advertisements speaking out against immigration policies under the Trump administration.

Wednesday's protest and vigil is part of a nationwide effort by Catholic organizations that are taking part in a campaign called One Church, One Family: Catholic Public Witness for Immigrants.