"More than 1.6 million immigrants have lost their legal status in the first 11 months of President Trump's presidency. The staggering number includes people who applied for and were accepted to come to the country on a wide variety of immigration parole, visa, asylum, and temporary protected status programs. That number exceeds Philadelphia's entire population. This is the largest effort to take away deportation protections for migrants who are in the country legally. Immigration advocates say it's very likely an undercount."
""These were legal pathways. People did the thing the government asked them to do, and this government went and preemptively revoked that status," said Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, an immigration advocacy organization that has been tracking the efforts to delegalize immigrants. "There's nothing close to this. Like there's no president of either party who has said, 'Central to my effort is revoking the work authorization and legal status for millions of people.'""
"Many of the immigrants who lost legal status have been in the country for years. Now, they fear what could happen should their immigration cases not process quickly enough. The administration has encouraged immigrants to leave the country as it gets rid of their legal authorization. "The American taxpayer will no longer bear the financial burden of unlawfully present aliens," U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesperson Matthew Tragesser said,"
More than 1.6 million immigrants lost legal status in the first 11 months of President Trump's presidency. The figure includes people accepted through parole, visas, asylum, and temporary protected status programs and exceeds Philadelphia's population. The effort represents the largest removal of deportation protections for migrants in legal status and is likely an undercount. Todd Schulte, president of FWD.us, called the revocations preemptive and unprecedented. Many affected immigrants have lived in the country for years and fear deportation if their immigration cases do not process quickly. The administration has encouraged some to leave and paused the diversity visa lottery.
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