What might happen with immigration policies in the new year?
UC Law’s Julie Leftwich speaks with WVXU’s Cincinnati Edition
Julie Leftwich, director of international peace security initiatives at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, spoke with WVXU’s Cincinnati Edition for a segment about immigration policies advanced by President-elect Donald Trump for his second term in office.
Leftwich leads efforts at UC Law to establish a Center for International Peace and Security for the College, which will provide practice-based experiential learning and career development opportunities for students and serve as an interdisciplinary hub for scholarship and expertise.
The United States has at least 11 million unauthorized immigrants, according to the Pew Research Center.
“What we know is he has promised to deport millions of immigrants,” Leftwich told WVXU’s Cincinnati Edition. “He has stated he will have large facilities for holding them. We also know that they are looking at revoking the statuses of people that are here, people that might have temporary protective status or humanitarian parole, and that could include Afghans that have humanitarian parole, who were evacuated from Afghanistan.
She says the new administration is looking at ‘broad efforts, going beyond anything that has ever happened in this country.”
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