New York’s undocumented came out of the shadows under Obama. Now, with Trump, they fear giving away personal details could have been a big mistake.
by Matthew Ponsford, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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As President Donald
Trump fights to deliver on his pledge to rapidly deport 2 to 3 million
people living in the country without visas, there’s a pile of almost a
million documents with details of many of New York City’s undocumented
people — information they themselves willingly handed over that today
risk leading federal immigration forces right to their front doors.
More
than a million of the country's estimated 11.1 million undocumented
immigrants live in the city and its suburbs, many having worked there
for decades and built families.
The documents
were the underpinning of an ambitious city identity card system — IDNYC —
set up by the mayor in 2015 with the express aim of helping those who
have fallen under the radar.
Now that data might come back to bite.
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Source: NBC News
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