Lawyers have reported an increase in the number of people who are making appointments to get questions answered and to find out if they have time to take action in order to stay in the United States.
“There is a large group of people who have come to see me, who have been here a long time, who have never had any kind of documentation, who have never turned themselves into officials, and who have lived in the gray area of the community.
“They are worried that they are going to look for them, about what is going to happen,” says immigration lawyer Willy Allen.
The constant stream of threats Trump has unabashedly lobbed at the country’s undocumented immigrants, Project 2025’s promise to end illegal immigration, and the statements and backgrounds of the team he has appointed to oversee immigration during his term have instilled fear among immigrant communities. Law firms and non-profit organizations that provide legal assistance to immigrants have already begun to note, through increased office visits and emails, the anxiety with which so many families are living today.
The questions that arrive every day via those hundreds of messages and visits from migrants in legal offices are varied. The biggest concerns among those who have approached different lawyers are related to the situation at the border, asylum requests, and work permits, subjects to which their organization has always attended.
“But now, we’re beginning to get questions that we haven’t dealt with before, like about the DACA program, people with pending deportation orders, and people who are completely undocumented and are looking for some kind of option,” he says . “People are in a bigger hurry. Those who wanted to seek asylum, but had a long-term plan to do so, are now getting it done much more quickly. “They are trying to accelerate the process to submit their request.”
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