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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Christopher Sherman and Olga R. Rodriguez

Some immigrants are already leaving the US in 'self-deportations' as Trump's threats loom

Immigration Self Deportation - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Michel Bérrios left the United States a few days before the new year, giving President-elect Donald Trump's campaign for mass deportations a small victory before they even started.

A former leader of a Nicaraguan student uprising, Bérrios had been in the U.S. legally, with nearly a year remaining under President Joe Biden's unprecedented use of humanitarian parole authority for citizens of certain vulnerable countries. But harsh talk during the U.S. election campaign filled her with anxious memories of hiding from authorities back home.

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