He said Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric is nonsense. Without people like him the country would be stuck.
“Donald Trump, he can talk bad about Mexicans all day, bro. But when it comes to building, when it comes to building a house, you can see right away who builds.”
According to the American Immigration Council, undocumented migrant households paid £28.43bn in taxes in 2022. Here in Georgia, they paid almost £1bn.
Trump has proposed using federal, state and local law enforcement to achieve his deportation goal, along with sending National Guard troops to the border and declaring illegal immigration a national emergency to unlock funds for border wall construction, sources told Reuters.
But experts say that those who voted for Trump in the hope of seeing illegal migrants rapidly deported will be disappointed.
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Compared to his first term, Trump now has control of both the House and Senate and a stronger mandate to push through reforms.
However, the number of immigration officers at his disposal remains limited, says Charles Kuck, managing partner at immigration law firm Kuck Baxter. At the same time, asking local law enforcement agencies to partner with immigration authorities is likely to encounter pushback.
“We do not have the physical capacity to deport everybody who’s undocumented,” said Kuck.
“It costs $11,000 ( £8,910 ) to deport an undocumented migrant.”
Mark, the manager at the metals factory, says he has been encouraging his illegal staff to get documented. But Kuck says this is virtually impossible unless the person is an exceptional case, such as the victim of human trafficking.
Short of leaving the country and being subject to bans that can last around 10 years, or six years, if the person is married to a US citizen, a long-time illegal migrant cannot become legal, he said. But for many it shouldn’t matter.
“As I tell my clients, there isn’t a giant immigration computer that tracks all activity in America. Unless you come to the attention of the enforcement authorities, ICE, or perhaps a local sheriff who’s overzealous, you have zero chance of being removed,” he said.
Pizzeria owner, Mohammad Shah, said if Trump really is a businessman, he will see sense and limit his deportation policy to mostly criminals.
But even if he doesn’t, those in the car park hustling for work, said they had no choice but to keep going until the day they were rounded up and put on a plane. Because however hard life is in America, the alternative is worse.
The American dream is real, said Oscar.
“I was poor. Now I’m rich.”
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