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Migrant families and immigration advocacy groups are preparing for millions of families to potentially be separated from each other during the mass deportations planned by President-elect Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is unclear how exactly the deportations will play out and how families will be impacted. But a recent study by the American Immigration Council, a pro-immigration advocacy group, estimated that up to 4 million mixed-status families \u2014 where some members are undocumented and some are U.S. citizens \u2014 could be separated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In states like Arizona, Colorado and Pennsylvania, mixed-status families, asylum-seekers and advocates say they are planning for scenarios where children could be separated from their parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014Migrants wait in a processing center at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Dennis DeConcini port of entry in Nogales Ariz. in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Pennsylvania, Lillie, a U.S. citizen who did not want to use her last name out of concern for her family\u2019s safety, has been married to her undocumented husband from Honduras for 10 years. Last week, she took her U.S.-born children to get their passports and plans to get a power of attorney drawn up in the event her husband gets deported, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf something happens and my husband is detained or he\u2019s deported, it would be very difficult for me to get passports for my children, for our children, to be able to leave the country to go see him,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her husband was detained back in 2017, during the last Trump administration, for about two months. The experience has affected him \u201cmentally and emotionally,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe\u2019s made it clear that if it were to happen again, it would not be \u2018Let\u2019s stay and fight,\u2019\u201d Lillie said. \u201cIt would be \u2018Let\u2019s just go,\u2019 because he does not want to stay in detention again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout his successful 2024 run for the presidency, Trump has rallied supporters on the promise that he would enact the largest mass deportation effort in American history. And while Trump has said he will begin by prioritizing criminal noncitizens for deportation, the former president and his incoming administration have not ruled out separating or deporting families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked by CBS News last month if there was a way to carry out mass deportations without separating families, Tom Homan, who has since been named as Trump\u2019s \u201cborder czar,\u201d said, \u201cFamilies can be deported together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specific mass deportation plans are still being developed by Trump and his transition team, but sources familiar with the planning told NBC News recently that restarting family detention and potentially building more detention facilities in nonborder U.S. cities are being considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014People hold “Mass Deportation Now!” signs at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, on July 17, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Tucson, Arizona, the Coalici\u00f3n de Derechos Humanos, a group of more than 10 nonprofit organizations, is helping undocumented and mixed-status families create \u201cemergency packets\u201d ahead of potential mass deportations. The idea, organizers say, is partly based on past experiences where parents have been detained or deported while their children were in school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had cases where they made calls. We had cases where they were not able to get in touch with the mother, their friends,\u201d said coalition co-founder Isabel Garcia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cemergency packet,\u201d which coalition members are helping families make in local workshops, will include key documents such as a power of attorney for parental authority, family emergency contacts and a child\u2019s school records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Garcia said that community interest in the coalition and its services has peaked since Trump won the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore people have come to our meetings. We have had more people calling us. We are now inundated with people,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advocacy groups are also bracing for state-level changes to immigration enforcement that could result in deportations. Organizers for Coalici\u00f3n de Derechos Humanos in Tucson say they are bracing for the impact of Proposition 314, a hard-line state immigration and border enforcement law that Arizona voters passed in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The measure makes it a state crime to enter Arizona between a port of entry illegally and allows local law enforcement to arrest noncitizens and state judges to order deportations. It also adds state penalties to acts like selling fentanyl that lead to the death of another person and presenting false information to an employer or a public benefits program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposition 314 is one of multiple immigration-related state laws passed in the U.S. to address what supporters say is a record-high number of illegal border crossings under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scenes of asylum-seeker encampments in nonborder cities as well as high-profile crimes committed by immigrants contributed to immigration becoming a key issue in this year\u2019s election in states like Arizona that helped Trump return to the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014A woman with a young child boards an ICE Air flight back to Honduras in Harlingen, Texas in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some sections of Arizona\u2019s Proposition 314 cannot go into effect until similar laws currently held up in court, like Texas\u2019 Senate Bill 4, are in effect for at least 60 consecutive days. And some Arizona sheriffs have expressed concerns about having to enforce the full extent of Proposition 314.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt would create distrust in the community,\u201d said Santa Cruz County Sheriff David Hathaway, referring to the predominantly Latino jurisdiction he oversees. \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t want to call 911. They would be hesitant to call us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hathaway, a former Drug Enforcement Administration agent, says he\u2019s also worried about the lack of training and funding related to the new law. He\u2019s worried that his workforce of 40 deputies will be overextended if he asks them to take on immigration duties on top of general crime in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have no training to become immigration officers, and I\u2019m going to stick with the same basics of law enforcement as every one of the 3,000 elected sheriffs across the U.S.,\u201d Hathaway said. \u201cCoincidentally, I\u2019m located on the border, but my priorities are still the same as any other sheriff in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fear in Colorado<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Denver, Yoli Casas runs a nonprofit that has assisted thousands of the more than 19,200 migrants who have arrived in the city since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott started busing migrants to the area in May 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the number of daily arrivals has diminished significantly in recent months, Casas says her team has received a surge of emails and texts from the community that \u201chas not stopped\u201d since Election Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casas says she has gotten messages from families asking whether they could grant her organization power of attorney to do things like put children on planes in the event of a separation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nonprofit leader says she\u2019s beginning to meet with lawyers and families to talk through what\u2019s possible and how best to answer such questions from the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said that children in the after-school programs she operates are posing questions as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re even asking, \u2018Are we going to get deported?\u2019\u201d she said. \u201cAnd other children are saying, \u2018Is my friend going to be deported?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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