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The chatter of Spanish serves as the backdrop of Pico-Union, where the aroma of pastries from the panaderia merge with the synthetic smells of an auto repair garage. A predominantly Latino neighborhood, it has for decades been a first stop for immigrants both legal and illegal coming from various corners of Latin America.

Over the years, this community has faced challenges, including from politicians threatening crackdowns on illegal immigration. But to many in this densely populated area near MacArthur Park, the presidency of Donald Trump poses a threat of an altogether different scale. Trump has vowed mass deportations of those here illegally, which if carried out, could fundamentally alter the rhythms of life in Pico-Union and numerous other immigrant enclaves around Southern California and beyond.

The potential threat of emptied homes and shuttered businesses has residents envisioning the worst.

Una desolacin. Imagnate no ms, worried Graciela Sandoval, 79, who has lived in Pico-Union for five decades. A desolation. Just imagine it.

Itll be a ghost town here, added Manuel Blanco, 42, a lifelong Pico-Union resident who runs an auto repair shop in the area.Its not even going to be worth being in business.

An analysis released Thursday by the Pew Research Center underscores just how much immigrants here illegally have been embedded into the culture and economy of Los Angeles. Woven, often seamlessly, into dozens of cities infrastructures, they have become a workforce and community that makes up much of the fabric of Southern California.

Nearly 10% of the nations 11.1 million immigrants who are in the country illegally reside in Los Angeles and Orange counties, according to the research center. The region is home to 1 million such immigrants, second only to the greater New York area, which has 1.2 million. Third on the list was Houston with 575,000. The city of Los Angeles alone has an estimated 375,000.

Up to 8 million people in the country illegally could be considered priorities for deportation, according to calculations by The Times based on interviews with experts who studied internal documents related to Trumps directive. Trump has said that his order allows immigration officials to detain nearly anyone who has crossed the border illegally.

The Pew analysis, using augmented 2014 data collected by the American Community Survey, which is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, focused on the 20 major metropolitan areas with the highest numbers of immigrants here illegally. It showed that the population tends to live among legal immigrants and is highly concentrated.

In 2014, 61% of immigrants here illegally lived in those20 metropolitan areas, whereas only 36% of the total U.S. population lived in the same regions. All butone of the areas remained in the top 20 over the previous decade.

Five of those including Riverside, San Francisco, San Diego and San Jose were in California, a state at the forefront of the sanctuary movement, where leaders have insisted cities will continue to offer refuge to immigrants in the face of Trumps threat to cut their funds.

Although Los Angeles has not explicitly declared itself a sanctuary city, it has taken measures to protect those here illegally. Early this month, City Council members pushed forward a plan to draft a law that would decriminalize street vending. Many, if not most, who peddle items like bacon-wrapped hot dogs, fruit and ice cream are in the country illegally, and city leaders hope to keep them from being charged for selling goods or food on the sidewalk which would make them more vulnerable to deportation.

If the unauthorized population were to leave areas where they contribute to the local economy, cities could find themselves in trouble.

They would face not just a loss of population or loss of labor but also loss of buying power, said Louis DeSipio, a professor of political science at UC Irvine who specializes in immigration from Latin America.

Immigrants who are here illegally often contribute to the economy even in neighborhoods where they dont live, as service workers in restaurants or in the homes of the more well-heeled.

In Santa Ana, businesses catering to immigrants kept the downtown financially viable after white residents left decades earlier. The county seat of Orange County, Santa Ana boasts a downtown with gourmet restaurants and hipster shops, but its vibrancy is fueled by the Mexican immigrant community a good portion of which lacks legal status.

On Sundays, vehicles cruise 4th Street blaring Mexican ranchera music while families amble about bridal and hair salons, snack carts, jewelry shops and check-cashing stores that wire money to Latin America.

Claudia Arellanes, secretary of the Santa Ana Business Council and owner of a furniture store, said the area is reliant on its immigrant clientele.

Many people dont understand this, she said. It would be devastating. The downtown area would fail.

Businesses that dont specifically cater to new immigrants, such as mainstream malls, movie theaters and restaurants, also reap the benefits from a large unauthorized population that quickly acculturates to its surroundings, DeSipio said.

In Maywood, a 1.2-square-mile municipality that declared itself a sanctuary city more than a decade ago, the effects of Trumps directive have residents envisioning a collapsed community. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a population of 28,000, but city officials say that number doubles whenimmigrants in the country illegally are included.

Residents can point out neighbor after neighbor who dont have documents. Most have relatives in the same situation. Friends, too.

You would have empty homes and empty apartments,Mayor Pro TemEduardo De La Riva said of potentialmass deportations. People would be afraid to come outside.

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The Washington Post published an astonishing piece of pro-illegal immigration propaganda on Wednesday, detailing the struggles of illegal aliens living under President Donald Trump.

In Trumps capital, undocumented immigrants live and work in the shadow of the White House, the title of the piece states, before detailing the individual sob stories of five illegal aliens.

I am entitled to be here, unapologetically so.

While no one can deny that there are indeed some illegal aliens residing in the country who are here through no fault of their own, The Posts article is far from an attempt to examine the illegal immigration issue in a balanced and thoughtful way.

Rather, it is a blatant attempt to elicit emotional reactions from readers by depicting illegal aliens squarely as victims of Trumps nefarious aims and it may end up backfiring.

While The Post unequivocallybelieves its efforts will help the cause it so clearly wishes to champion, the article itself is a prime example of the kind of mainstream media chicanery which has left publications like The Post utterly bereft of credibility on major issues in the eyes of the American people.

The first illegal alien introduced to readers is Claudette Monroy, who now fears she may have to leave George Washington University and go back to Mexico. But Monroy isn't some poor victim of her parents' actions like the typical Dreamer paraded by the mainstream media.

"At 15, using a visitor's visa, she came to live with her older sister in Virginia," The Post reports. "'The plan was I was going to finish my freshman year, and I was going to go back to Mexico,' she said. 'Then life happened. I was doing well in school.'"

Monroy was not dragged across the border by criminal parents. Instead, she herself knowingly and willingly decided to commit a criminal act by overstaying her visa.

Later on in the article, the reader is introduced to an individual who is such an obvious representative of the radical far-left agenda one might be forgiven for thinking The Post invented her out of thin air.

Catalina Velasquez is, according to The Post, is the "first transgender undocumented immigrant to graduate from Georgetown University." Velasquez's parents were deported while she was attending Georgetown.

"I have not been able to hug my mother since then," Velasquez told The Post. "Every year is one more Christmas, one more Thanksgiving, one more birthday that I don't get to see them. Sometimes it's debilitating. Sometimes it gives me the strength to say that this shouldn't happen to another family."

The audacity of this comment is breathtaking. The only thing preventing Velasquez from hugging her mother is her refusal to return to her own country. No one is forcing her to stay in the United States.

Her longing for his family may indeed be debilitating, but unlike the countless number of Americans who have lost loved ones to criminal illegal aliens, Velasquezhas the opportunity to see her family again; she simply refuses to take it.

But Velasquez, like all open borders radicals, believes she has a God-given right to reside in a country that isn't hers. "I am entitled to be here, unapologetically so," said Velasquez. Velasquez is not entitled to be here in the slightest, and her claim would likely be taken as offensive to many of theimmigrants in America who came into the country legally.

Not content to merely pick two of the worst possible choices for garnering sympathy for illegal aliens, The Washington Post also decided to accuse the Justice Department of widespread lawlessness, asserting that DOJ officials are actively and willingly violating federal immigration law on a mass scale.

"There are 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. They are taxi drivers who find politicians in their back seats. They are child-care workers who get calls from Justice Department employees who are running late," the article asserts without providing any proof whatsoever.

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President Trump reportedly spent a meeting with 10 senators on Thursday complaining about voter fraud. The gathering was intended to be a discussion about Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. Politico reported that as soon as reporters exited the room, Trump began telling the group of senators how both he and former Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) who lost her re-election bid and is now serving as a Capitol Hill liaison for Trump on Gorsuch's nomination were victims of a rigged election. Ayotte was in the room, as was White House Counsel Don McGahn.

Trump obviously won the election, but he narrowly lost New Hampshire to Hillary Clinton. He told senators Thursday that was because of the "thousands" of people "brought in on buses" from Massachusetts to "illegally vote" in New Hampshire. The room reportedly responded with an "uncomfortable silence."

Trump indicated that this voter fraud, of which there is no evidence, had also affected Ayotte, though he suggested her loss might have also had something to do with her decision to distance herself from him after he criticized the parents of a Muslim Gold Star soldier. "He told her, 'You'd have won if you'd been on my train," a participant told Politico.

Then, as the cherry on top of that crumbling cake, Trump told Democrats he was glad "Pocahontas" his chosen nickname for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was "becoming the face of 'your party,'" Politico reported.

Trump has repeatedly claimed millions voted illegally in the presidential election, causing him to lose the popular vote to Clinton, but he has yet to produce any evidence to substantiate those claims. Becca Stanek

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"It's very painful," Mohamed said.

Mohamed and Bashar Yussuf, who is also from Somalia, said they each paid a smuggler $600 to drop them off on the U.S. side of the border near Emerson, leaving them to trudge through the bush for three hours.

"We made it. And we are happy with that," Yussuf said.

The border is patrolled by Royal Canadian Mounted Police. When officers find a person illegally crossing on foot, they arrest and search that person. If the person wants to make a refugee claim, they are taken to a Canada Border Services Agency location to start the process.

Ghezae Hagos, a protection councilor in Winnipeg, helps people fill out forms to become a refugee and said it's getting busier every week. He said the CBSA doesn't let just anyone in -- and claimants have their fingerprints and photos taken.

"If a person has some security problems, or criminal records they will deal with that. Most of the people that have been coming have been screened," Hagos said.

Local officials in Emerson wonder if people with criminal backgrounds could be slipping through.

"We have to make sure that we protect the integrity of our border, and we don't know who always crossing our border. sometimes they got a really good reason to cross the border but sometimes they are also fleeing other things," said Member of Parliament Ted Falk, whose district includes the area.

Some of those who have crossed the border are getting help from Manitoba Interfaith Immigration Council, a refugee resettlement agency. The group's executive director, Rita Chahal, said more in-country claims have been filed with her agency since January 1 than most years altogether.

"We need to start preparing even greater numbers," Chanal told CTV.

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February 9, 2017 About 6.8 million undocumented immigrants are clustered in 20 US urban areas, according to a new analysis from the Pew Research Center, from 100,000 in the greater Austin area to nearly 1.2 million around New York City.

Many of these localities have so-called sanctuary ordinances that aim to protect illegal immigrants from deportation by not cooperating with or supporting federal authorities efforts to identify them.

An executive order issued on January 25th aims to strip federal funding from sanctuary cities and counties. Sanctuary jurisdictions across the United States willfully violate Federal law in an attempt to shield aliens from removal from the United States, the order argued. These jurisdictions have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of our Republic.

Several big-city mayors have already voiced their opposition to Trump's order. For many opponents, the arguments go beyond empathy for undocumented immigrants: Local governments say they have some clear incentives to protect their undocumented residents from deportation. In the view of many police officers, for example, public safety improves when trust in police improves and deportations could do the opposite. "Using local cops as immigration agents, they say, would shut the door on vast communities of immigrants, creating more opportunity for criminal activity, not less," The Christian Science Monitor reported last month.

Theres also the matter of cost. If local authorities arrest someone who turns out to be an undocumented immigrant, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) typically asks the local authorities to hold the individualuntil he or she can be deported. County jail systems often pick up the tab during the waiting period.

But while some areas, like Miami-Dade County in Florida, have decided to comply lest they lose funding, others think the federal government's authority to strip funds is more narrow than commonly feared.

The Pew Report released Thursday points to another layer of complexity in this debate. Among the top 20 metro areas, there was only one Phoenix in which the majority of the area's unauthorized immigrants live in the city itself. Everywhere else, most lived within the metro area, but outside the borders of the main city.This means that the undocumented population of a metropolitan area could fall under the jurisdiction of several city, town, and county governments, each of which could have different types of sanctuary ordinances.

It remains to be seen whether some types of sanctuary ordinances will survive Trumps order better than others and, if so, what the effects on metropolitan areas could be. But some immigrants' rights advocates are confident that localities will have the upper hand.

Sanctuary city policies "have been carefully crafted with federal laws in mind," Grisel Ruiz, a staff attorney with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, told the Monitors Amanda Hoover last month."They can definitely stand a legal challenge in court."

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