"Great deportations from the US are about to start", "There will be mass deportations of immigrants", "Trump does not intend to wait", "Polonia scared", "Fear of deportations" – these are just a fewer of the headlines that have been causing discussions in the US in fresh days, but besides in Poland. The plans of the fresh U.S. president besides alarmed Pope Francis, who said: “If that is true, it will be a misfortune.” The subject besides reached Podhale, where almost all household has individual in America. But are they afraid of deportation? What's with the mass deportations from the US? I checked it out.
Maria, 1947, runs a motel in Florida. Her older daughter works for NASA, California. The another is simply a pharmacist in Chicago. Their cousin Janusz, an entrepreneur, ski jumper, runs a construction company in the USA. And the next one, Richard, 1982, has a transport company and drives trucks all over the States.
The full household is from Podhale. Everyone, as we hear, was waiting for Donald Trump. any supported his campaign. Everyone has hope for peace and economical success. They want the U.S. to be a power like Reagan. And they feel his choice gives them strength.
Maria: – We believe Trump will lead to peace at the border. That human trafficking and drug trafficking will be stopped.
Her daughter speaks of greater patriotism and development, due to the fact that there will be technological investigation on a larger scale.
Janusz, who left Poland in the 1980s, tells that behind Joe Biden his construction company, which employed 30 people, survived the stagnation and the situation forced him to invest any of the funds in Poland. He had properties here, and now he has to live in 2 countries. But, as he claims, for Donald Trump, his main business will be back in the United States.
And Richard, the youngest who remembers the times of the Polish People's Republic, and in the United States he started his transport company, says:
– I went to someone's first. Now I've got a fewer tires and I'm driving all over the States. I think that after Trump's oath, there will be more peace. In Chicago, or in another cities, there are neighborhoods where you can get in broad daylight, that's dangerous. The raids on truck drivers were very common. I experienced it myself erstwhile I was attacked by black people. If Trump goes after this and there are deportations, he's inactive my president. I support him with 2 hands.
Why are we writing about this? due to the fact that Donald Trump's announcements about the mass deportation of illegal immigrants origin large controversy and anxiety. Also, according to media reports, among American Polonia.
But seemingly not everyone feels that way.
“There are many Poles all over the US. Those who came here have taken the procedure of trying to receive a "green card" (permanent stay). People work honestly, they pay taxes. Here in Florida Poles are not afraid, says Maria. He besides stresses that there are no problems with visitors from Mexico who are very busy and have not had any incidents involving them.
But they support the thought of deporting others.
– Those who are on the social scene, who request to be maintained, who have social (full social) vouchers and are on the bar with the law. If these are our people, we won't even regret them due to the fact that they're ruining our image. That's what Poles say. Polonia, who has been here for years, who has worked, is not afraid of specified announcements. Poles are and will be well perceived by the administration of the current president – we hear.
Richard: – All Poles who want to work honestly have a green light to handle immigration issues. Let them deport those who don't want to do it.
Do Poles fear Trump's plans for deportation
We besides ask about Trump's announcements in the Podhale itself, due to the fact that everyone here has individual in the States. For example, Maria of Florida is from Longfield, where almost everyone has individual in the United States. It is akin in Ludźmierz and Krauszów, towns of Nowotarski district.
– There is no household here that does not have individual close or further behind the large water. These bonds are very close, sustained for generations. People who live on Washington's land have had properties on the Podhale for centuries. They rise children in a patriotic, spiritual spirit. Gwara and traditions of Podhalan, although so far from the roots, are maintained there – says a resident of 1 of the sub-Tatra villages.
For example, the American past of his household began erstwhile his great-great-great-great-grandmother sailed out in search of a better planet for the US, and his great-great-great-grandmother was born “on a ship” that sailed to fresh York.
There are plenty of people like that here, so we presume in advance that where, but here, any must be curious in Donald Trump's plan. Thus, the mass – as the media call it – deportation of illegal immigrants from the United States, which was to start on 21 January, the day after the inauguration of the 47th president of the United States.
In addition, in Chicago, where there is simply a immense part of Polonia, which has awakened media emotions for respective days.
"Chicagovan immigration lawyers prepare for announced mass deportations. They instruct people without permanent residence in the United States, what they are expected to do if they appear at their home or at the place of work of the immigration police" – reported on the day of Trump's inauguration Polish Wind Radio from Chicago.
Paul Żuchowski, a correspondent for RMF FM in the United States, reported on X: “After the announcement that illegal immigration in the United States should be launched on Tuesday, many begin to realize that they may lose close relatives or friends. For any reason many Poles thought that specified actions would not apply to us.”
The writer quoted respective comments of afraid Poles. Among them are: “I had Trump’s flag on my house, but now I’m scared. “Trump never said that he would throw out illegal Poles. This is not about us."
Mountaineer: ‘There are many that could contact it’
So we ask them on the Podhale if they've heard of these plans.
– I heard on the radio that they're expected to deport those who are illegal in the United States little than 5 years old and have no children. This most likely concerns everyone without exception, besides Poles. Means that besides Poles who support Trump will now have... – the another mountaineer from Zakopane responds.
He has a household in America, too. But he suspects that any Poles are definitely afraid.
– There's any people in America from us who could contact it. I'm certain those who went distant on a three-month visa in fresh years and didn't come back due to the fact that there's quite a few people who come back, but there are people who don't. I know those who left on this visa last year, due to the fact that erstwhile they saw that things were getting bad in Poland, that was where they wanted to start a fresh life. And they never came back. Everyone said Trump was their future," he says.
– And if individual decides to stay and see their future there, they're afraid. It's not right. It's not expected to be. A native American is an Indian, and the remainder are migrants. If America is an emigrant state, then immigrants should be admitted. In my opinion, if these deportations contact Poles, they should go out on the streets. I think that in any families in Podhale they can talk about it now – he thinks.
"U.S. mountains start returning to Podhale? If so, the competitive labour marketplace will start immediately" – I besides read this comment on 1 of the sub-halan groups on the FB.
In respective localities, including Bukowina Tatrzanska, I hear the other diagnosis, however, that here any mountaineers from America have already returned, due to the fact that in Poland a better life has begun, and the subject does not arouse emotions. Or that Poles, after Poland's entry into the EU, no longer leave for the US, so that does not apply to them. But besides that any Trump announcements receive something out of this world.
– I don't believe in that – I hear from a fewer people.
So how much could this be a real scenario?
“Some of our fellow countrymen in Chicago and the surrounding area are justified”
– If the fresh Trump administration actually starts deportations of illegal immigrants, it will naturally besides affect Poles, whether they are in the US illegally for 3 or 30 years. And I personally know a fewer people who have been without a visa in the United States since the late 1980s and 1990s," comments Marcin Bosacki, MP of KO, erstwhile Polish Ambassador to Canada.
– If the U.S. government changes the law (or decides to enforce the law more strongly), then the fresh law or fresh approach applies to everyone. Equality to the law is sacred there. And that is why I think, unfortunately, the concerns of any of our fellow countrymen in Chicago and the surrounding area are justified – he believes politicians.
Let us remind you of what is known about this plan so far
It started right after Donald Trump won. And even earlier, due to the fact that it is known that immigration policy was 1 of the key themes of his campaign. Already in January 2024 he announced: – Shortly after my inauguration we will begin the largest national deportation operation in American history.
In an interview with NBC, he later stated that more than 11 million people were involved.
No wonder the AP agency late reported: "Since Trump won the election, immigrants in large cities are preparing for mass arrests".
They're afraid of mass deportation in the U.S.
Before the weekend and just before Trump's inauguration, the shock sparked the publication “Wall Street Journal”, which revealed the plan.
The paper reported a large-scale deportation operation to cover Chicago, fresh York, Miami, and another U.S. cities. According to her information, the Office for Immigration and Enforcement of Customs (ICE) intends to send from 100 to 200 officers to carry out mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
"You will witness arrests in fresh York. You'll witness the Miami arrests. And if Mayor Chicago doesn't want to help, he can go. But if he bothers us, if he consciously hides an illegal immigrant, I will prosecute him," said Tom Homan, whom Trump announced as a “car of the border”.
He is simply a fresh overseer of the American borders, who announced before the presidential election that he was planning to "run the largest deportation operation in the country's history". Now he stated that it would be long - lasting and costly.
According to WSJ, the action was to start on January 21.
The remainder of the article under our collection:
– Mass deportations stay the top precedence – Donald Trump emphasized on Saturday in NBC News. He said that they would begin soon, but he did not give any exact date or city in which they would begin.
There was a scare in Chicago. American media quoted city mayors, clergymen, residents.
"The information that revolves about planned mass deportations directed in the Chicago area is not only profoundly disturbing, but besides profoundly hurt us," said Cardinal Base Cupich of the Chicago Archdiocese.
The Associated Press Agency besides cited Pastor Homero Sanchez, who said he did not realize how deep the fear of the immigrant community in Chicago is until individual asked him to sale his family's home if Trump's plan came into effect.
However, whether deportations begin on Tuesday, it is unknown. In his latest interview with the “Washington Post”, Homan stated that the US administration had not yet decided on “a raid” in Chicago, which would happen just after the inauguration.
