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Undocumented Immigrants' Hopes May Rest on Melania
Can the president-elect deport millions if his wife worked in the U.S. before she was legal? Yes, but...
Were her documents in order?
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Speaker Paul Ryan said last weekend that there will be no deportation force rounding up undocumented immigrants. President-elect Donald Trump, Ryan’s new boss, said he will deport 2 million or 3 million undocumented immigrants. Both may be right.
Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state who called the League of Women Voters “communist” for trying to thwart his voter-suppression efforts, is a key immigration policy adviser to Trump. He told the Los Angeles Times last week: “There is vast potential to increase the level of deportations without adding personnel.”