Unscumented immigrants, when -nate pragmatic, make plans

My relative who lives in the border country is one of those practitioners. Manuel, 65 years old, works in a small company that produces mechanical components. This is a nickname – he, of course, did not want to publish his real name, fearing that it can make it a target.

Manuel came to the United States from Mexico 23 years ago with his wife and three children; The whole family at the time had real visas. Is what the government classifies as “The visa overstates”People whose legal permission ended but who have never left the country.

What I was most impressed in Manuel’s mind in a potential deportation is his unexpected Trump’s efforts.

“Trump is cleaning the house,” he told me in Spanish. “He just finishes what he started in his first term. And you know what? It’s okay. Maybe I would do the same if I was him. ”

Manuel’s wife has a successful home cleaning business, and together they created a comfortable life. They have a house, nice cars, and were waiting for years when a family petition-Podana through the father-in-law’s father-in-law-for processing. But These specific cases take many yearsIf not decades to be eliminated.

Two adult children Manuel DACA (delayed action for childhood arrival)What protects them from deportation now, but leaves them vulnerable if the Trump administration demonstrates the program. His third child is a permanent resident.

“When my wife and I are growing up, I just want to do it with dignity,” Manuel said. “I can’t retire here because I do not have legal documents,” he said, it means that he will not have access to social security benefits. “So I’m at the intersection, and the best thing I can do is to protect what we built.”

If he is deported, Manuel said he would survive. But his employer will lose the employee, his wife can close, and the money he has saved for retirement will be spent in Mexico, not the United States.

Boston -based immigration lawyer stated in an interview that demand for his services has increased when undocumented immigrants are preparing for the worst.

“I worked with different non -profit organizations that give presentations” know their rights, “he said. His main advice for clients -to develop a family training plan, a logistics and legal roadmap that outlines who will care for children who will be caring for children Born in the US, and as assets will be guided in the case of deportation.

“There are different levels of how formally it can be,” Henrykes said. “It can be as informal as the private document you notary, or it can be as official as you go to court, and the mother of a judge orders someone as a guardian of one of your children.”

Henrkes shares with customers A step -by -step plan for family training This includes everything from drawing up a plan for child care, signing the caregiver’s confidence to designate a trusted adult to take care of their child if they are arrested-for the collection of important documents such as birth certificates and passports in one place and notification of family and extraordinary contacts about How to find the people who were detained US immigration and customs performance.

He also proposes to sign the power of attorney that Manuel did last Friday. Doing this, he legally authorized a trusted person to cope with his finances – that is, to have access to his bank accounts and make decisions on their behalf, such as selling their home and cars – if they are deported.

Meanwhile, Manuel’s wife reluctantly recognizes the threat that he said. She does not think that something happens to them. Manuel has no criminal record, but it no longer guarantees security. In the past, immigration power has focused on undocumented immigrants who committed crimes, but Trump’s administration has repeatedly signaled Maximize the arrests of persons who are illegally hereperiod.

Manuel is well aware of the risks. His colleague, also Latin American and undocumented, was accused of drunk driving twice, he told me. “A few years ago”la migra“He came to look for him, but then there was no one,” Manuel said. “If they come again I could damage the damage. We know that there were many arrests (arrests and delays). We must be ready.”

Manuel’s history emphasizes the perennial and fundamental truth: the undocumented immigrants are deeply fixed in the American economy and society. They are owners of homes, business owners, parents, taxpayers. Many of them do not expect miracles. They make other plans.

Marsela Garcia – Globe Viewer. You can contact [email protected]. Follow it on x @marcela_elisa And on Instagram @marcela_elisa.