The article discusses the significant challenges faced by immigrant communities under the Trump administration, particularly amidst heightened scrutiny and aggressive enforcement actions. The Immigrant Defense Project, a prominent organization defending immigrant rights, highlights the alarming increase in deportations and targeting of people of color. Executive director Marie Mark emphasizes the need for preparedness against ongoing threats to immigration rights, underscoring a consistent pattern of governmental policies affecting marginalized communities. Various nonprofit organizations mobilize to offer protections as the crisis escalates.
Under the Biden administration, hundreds of thousands of people were deported. Biden also used a kind of false conflation of public safety policy and immigration policy that targets people of color.
New York's Immigrant Defense Project has been at the forefront of defending immigrant rights since its inception in 1994, challenging moves to curtail rights for migrants.
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