Undocumented South Florida
According to the Pew Research Center, the number of unauthorized immigrants in the US is estimated at 11.1 million. One of the burning questions regarding Trump’s stated aims - will he be able to carry out some of his more mean-spirited promises, including those on undocumented immigrants? The Obama administration increased deportations - at the same time, offered an olive branch - the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It allows some undocumented immigrants in the US who entered the country as minors to receive renewable two-year period permissions to stay. 750,000 have this status. They call themselves ‘Dreamers’ - they might still see their parents deported, but they at least had a hope of personally staying where they had grown up and established themselves - in the USA. But Donald Trump’s rhetoric, if made into policy, may rapidly turn their dreams into nightmares.