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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robin Buller

How millions of US children would be hurt by Trump’s mass deportation plan: ‘Deep harm is intentional’

two people's hands with barbed wire in between
‘Mass deportations will be profoundly harmful to US citizen children,’ said Andrew Craycroft, an attorney at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. Illustration: Guardian Design

Donald Trump confirmed on Monday his intentions to make mass deportations a hallmark of his second term.

That such measures would drastically upend the lives of the US’s immigrant communities is widely understood. But sweeping anti-immigrant policies would also be detrimental to American citizens – most notably the nearly 20 million US-born children of immigrant parents.

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