Sweeping dragnet a cornerstone of new immigration policy Mobilizations in defense of immigrants help, attorney says

Chico women's march participant photo by Leslie Layton
Chico women’s march participant

photo by Leslie Layton

by Leslie Layton

President Donald Trump is quickly re-shaping immigration policy with an emphasis on harsh enforcement, in part by issuing executive orders that cast a much wider deportation net.

In a telephone briefing Wednesday with members of the ethnic press nationwide, immigration attorneys discussed two orders signed Jan. 25 – two days prior to the Jan. 27 order that came to be known as the Muslim ban. The earlier pair of executive orders received scant media coverage until recently, when stories began appearing about the deportations of long-term U.S. residents who have no criminal record. read more