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You're going to talk hundreds, and then you're going to talk thousands,
Gonzales said
Constituents are starting to kind of say, are feeling as if the nightmare of the last administration has come to an end. So they feel kind of a breath of fresh air,
said Gonzales, a third-term congressmanI expect very quickly this will be streamlined, and instead of 80 a day, or a few hundred, it'll pick up very quickly. There'll be hundreds a day,
Gonzales said in a phone call from El Paso, where he has spoken with senior military, homeland security, Mexican partners, and local elected officials late this weekThe Border Patrol agents and military and just other federal agencies feel as if the page has turned and it's a new chapter, and they're excited to help write that new chapter,
he saidAlthough President Biden originally created this new program on dubious legal grounds and brought individuals here without a plan for their future, they were still enrolled under programs offered to them. Therefore, I believe they should have the ability to see their applications out to rectify their legal status,
she wrote
Newark will not stand by idly while people are being unlawfully terrorized. I will be holding a press conference in alliance with partners ready and willing to defend and protect civil and human rights. Details to come."
He addedI'm urging Homeland Security to PROTECT Cubans awaiting legal status adjustment through the Cuban Adjustment Act. We must ALSO protect the Venezuelans and Nicaraguans without a criminal record going through the asylum process. Don't penalize them for Biden's screw-ups!"
Salazar wrote on X, attaching a letter she wrote to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).These people are going to come back and their return is going to have an impact on their mental health."
Camelia Tigau, a migration researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, told the outletWe can't keep responding to emergencies with programs that may have the best intentions but fall absolutely short. What this shows is that for decades Mexico has benefited from Mexican migrants through remittances, but it has resigned this population to oblivion."
Sergio Luna, from the Migrant Defense Organizations' Monitoring Network, told The New York TimesRepatriation is an opportunity to return home and be reunited with family."
Earlier this week, Mexican Interior Minister Rosa Icela Rodríguez said at a news conference.jpg)
Deportation flights have begun. President Trump is sending a strong and clear message to the entire world: if you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday
Like I said from day one, no one is off the table, if you're in the United States illegally you've got a problem."
Tom Homan, Trump's border czar, told NewsNation on ThursdayThe most important point for everyone to remember is this: The courts are a critical vehicle to stop the damage, but we really need to listen to those being harmed if we’re going to change how we operate,
Tumlin said
I was appalled, upset, angry that this would happen here in this state, in this country,
Baraka saidCostly, cruel and chaotic are the words that characterise the wave of extreme policies that the Trump administration has unleashed in its efforts to purge immigrants from our country,
Vanessa Cardenas, the executive director of the advocacy group America’s Voice, said during a call with reportersWhat Trump’s orders make clear is that they are outlining immediate actions to hurt all immigrants: the 13 million undocumented people with years of life in the US, people with lawful protections, asylum seekers, those with non-immigrant visas already in our country, and those seeking to immigrate here legally,
she said
Turning places of care, healing and solace into places of fear...will not make our communities safer."
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso, Texas, warnedThe largest massive deportation operation in history is well underway. Promises made. Promises kept,
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told her followers on social mediaWell, he’s wrong. He’s going back to Haiti. I can tell you that.”
The border czar told the media
This notion that Democrats are pro-open border has never been the case. I know the media will try to harp on certain activists, but but if you look at them, they have always been very supportive of border militarization."
Chris Zepeda-Millán, professor of public policy & Chicana/o Studies at University of California, Los Angeles, told Newsweek