Migration: Trump’s anti-immigration course fueled fear among migrants

According to media reports, the first effects of the anti-migration policy announced by President Donald Trump can already be felt in the United States. Uncertainty grows in communities with a high proportion of migrants.

The “Chicago Tribune” reported that in a district with a large Mexican community the streets looked like extinct. Flying dealers stayed away. The parking spaces in front of hardware stores where day laborers usually look for work in the USA were empty.

Workers, especially from Central and South America, play an important role in agriculture in the United States, in construction and hospitality. But many of them live in the country without a valid residence permit and cannot demand their rights. As a result, they often work under precarious conditions and extremely low wages. This supports the competitiveness of entire industries.

According to the broadcaster ABC7, New York’s mayor Eric Adams tried to dispel the fears of unsettled parents. In a school in the Queens district, he said: “The ink on these regulations is not even dry.”

In preparation for possible mass deportations, the city administration sent an email to all headmaster in the east coast metropolis. It explained how affected families could be supported. At the same time, the headmaster was instructed to contact local authorities before leaving civil servants from the immigration authority ICE into the school buildings.

Under Trump, ICE is allowed to arrest migrants without valid papers in sensitive places such as churches, schools or hospitals – a departure from the protection regulations that were under its predecessor Joe Biden.

The fear of tightened controls is also noticeable in California. According to the California agricultural authority, she brought the lemon harvest in the heart of the state almost before Trump’s swearing -in, as the broadcaster NBC reported. People simply couldn’t get to work anymore.

Experts therefore warn that Trump’s anti-migration course could not only cause serious humanitarian consequences, but also considerably significant economic damage.