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They want to have borders, and they like people coming in, but they have to come in with love for the country. They have to come in legally."
In Thursday’s phone interview, he partially credited his message on immigration as a reason he won the race, saying
It’s not a question of a price tag. It’s not — really, we have no choice. When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here. There is no price tag."
Asked about the cost of his plan, he said
We will help him and his team with their transition and that we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power."
In her concession speech at Howard University on Wednesday, Harris said she told TrumpI started to see realignment could happen because the Democrats are not in line with the thinking of the country,
the president-elect saidVery nice calls, very respectful both ways,
Trump said, describing the conversations,We obviously have to make the border strong and powerful and, and we have to — at the same time, we want people to come into our country,
he saidThousands of folks and I who have Daca don’t have a plan if he [Trump] decides to terminate it,
said Hernandez
We believe that the program violated US law because of the lack of allowing people access to counsel, so we will continue to challenge that program,
Toczylowski saidWhat people don’t tend to understand is the power of his words. And even if there’s no physical violence, the mental pressure, the psychological violence is very detrimental,
said Guerline Jozef, executive director of the Haitian Bridge Alliance saidThe Trump administration saw that program as a way for them to keep asylum seekers out of sight and out of mind, but what we saw was that people’s lives were in danger. Women were raped,
she addedThere are a lot of people in our community living in mixed-status families, so mass deportations are a direct threat,
said Lindsay Toczylowski, executive director of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, a social justice law firm based in Los Angeles that serves people facing deportationI remember when Donald Trump first came into power, every immigrant in my community was afraid to get picked up by immigration officials,
said Hernandez, who was born in Mexico and brought to California as a child in the late 1980sI will ban refugee resettlement from terror-infested areas like the Gaza Strip, and we will seal our border and bring back the travel ban,
he said in SeptemberThe [2016] Trump administration has shown a disdain for immigrant children in the past, so it’s going to require organizers working with lawyers, working with communities, and we intend to challenge him in the courts.”
She addedIf I thought things were getting out of control, I would have no problem using the military.”
And Trump told Time earlier this yearWe are a population of immigrants who have given our lives and work for this country, and this country doesn’t want to acknowledge us. We should not be living in a time where immigrants are being pointed to as the reason why the government has failed on housing and the economy,
she saidIt is so difficult for me to uproot myself from the country that I have seen as my home,
said Elena, who lives in South Florida and gave only her first name for fear of being deported
We’re taking it very seriously,
said AltmanYou’re not talking about a dragnet,
Arthur, a former immigration judge, told The Associated PressI don’t have words yet, too many feelings,
Moreno said, her voice breaking as she spoke Wednesday of Trump’s victory