Pirate's Cove

You know, we don’t hear about families being separated when one members commits a crime and is sent to prison. Every single one of the people who are here illegally and started a family knew they were doing the wrong thing, and that it could catch up with them

Trump’s mass deportations could split 4 million mixed-status families. How one is getting ready.

Migrant families (WT: how many are straight up here illegally?) and immigration advocacy groups are preparing for millions of families to potentially be separated from each other during the mass deportations planned by President-elect Donald Trump.

It is unclear how exactly the deportations will play out and how families will be impacted. But a recent study by the American Immigration Council, a pro-immigration advocacy group, estimated that up to 4 million mixed-status families — where some members are undocumented and some are U.S. citizens — could be separated.

In states like Arizona, Colorado and Pennsylvania, mixed-status families, asylum-seekers and advocates say they are planning for scenarios where children could be separated from their parents.

That’s on them. They put themselves in this situation. If you get drunk and commit a crime in another country and go to jail, who’s at fault? If you get drunk on your first day of vacation and commit a minor crime and they kick you out and all that money you spent on vacation is wasted, who’s at fault? If you get caught illegally in Mexico and they throw you in jail, which is their law, who’s at fault?

Throughout his successful 2024 run for the presidency, Trump has rallied supporters on the promise that he would enact the largest mass deportation effort in American history. And while Trump has said he will begin by prioritizing criminal noncitizens for deportation, the former president and his incoming administration have not ruled out separating or deporting families.

When asked by CBS News last month if there was a way to carry out mass deportations without separating families, Tom Homan, who has since been named as Trump’s “border czar,” said, “Families can be deported together.”

Everyone here illegally and/or doesn’t qualify for asylum is on the board, they’re just lower cost properties. Same with those on Temporary Protected Status who have been here too long. They are Oriental Avenue. The lower level criminals are New York Avenue. The rapists, murderers, felons, gang members, etc, are Boardwalk.

But, yeah, families can go together. Maybe they thought they could get away with it forever, but, just like any criminal, there’s always a chance they get caught. Those here illegally bear the responsibility, and their spouses who knew they were here illegally were breaking federal law.