Throughout his campaign for a second term, President-elect Donald Trump promised his administration would carry out the largest mass deportation operation in American history.
If successful, Trump’s move would put the estimated more than a quarter-million Maryland residents without legal status at risk of deportation, which experts say could damage the state’s economy in the long term.
“(This policy) is a very real worry,” Benjamin Orr, the president and CEO of the nonpartisan Maryland Center on Economic Policy, told Capital News Service. ”It’s going to have terrible impacts on families, and it’s also going to really slow down and harm our state’s economy.”
Willow Lung-Amam, an associate professor in the University of Maryland’s urban studies and planning program and a director of its Urban Equity Collaborative, takes her class on a walking tour through Langley Park each year. It’s only a square mile, and the latest U.S. Census data indicates that 83 percent of its 22,000 residents are Hispanic — many of whom are living there without legal permission.
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