by Suzanne Gamboa
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s crackdown on
immigrants may not look on paper like a mass deportation, but for many
people it feels like one.
Statistically Trump’s sweep of immigrants, while up from last year, doesn’t compare to the deportations done in the early years of President Barack Obama’s first term.
But
the administration’s attempt to return to the peak deportation levels
under Obama or surpass them, combined with Trump’s rhetoric and his
drive to slash legal immigration, have whipped up enough fear to make
some feel a mass roundup is underway.
“At any
moment I feel I could just be taken away,” said Luis, a 16-year-old
Wisconsin resident who is undocumented and did not want his last name
used.
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