We Are US Citizens. My Children Are Still Terrified of Being Deported.

[struggle4progress]

By Achy Obejas
04/19/2025 07:00 AM EDT

... “What if I get deported?“ my American-born child asked.

I wasn’t entirely surprised by the question. Earlier in the week, after hearing how ICE arrests and deportation are impacting people where we live in the Bay Area, his 13-year-old brother asked if I was at risk of being arrested by ICE. They both know I was born in Cuba, and though neither could tell you about the Cuban Adjustment Act or any of the myriad laws that have smoothed my privileged immigration story, they’d both heard enough about the current deportations to think my American life — our American lives — could be imperiled.

I explained to them that I’m a U.S. citizen, not likely to be kicked out of the country. But President Donald Trump’s escalation from targeting deportable immigrants to immigrants with visas and green cards doesn’t exactly encourage trust ...

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/19/deportation-child-trump-ice-00299403

[58Sunliner]

1. My ancestors fought in the war of 1776 and I'm worried about being deported.

[sop]

2. Any American who fits the ICE profile for a targeted group should be terrified of being deported.

[DFW]

3. These days

That seems to include any mammal that walks on two legs and has vocal chords.

[hlthe2b]

4. I guess more ancestry tracing will be required... I can only easily document four generations and that seems

arguably inadequate if one has a liberal Democratic record, no matter the race or ethnicity. (For me to go further will require a lot of time, probably some considerable $$$, and perhaps an ancestry expert).

Sounds insensitive, though, given the far higher priority for this Fascist administration to remove POC, Muslims, liberal students with green cards, anyone given temporary status, and those who sought to save our US military in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.

But, our time (ALL OF OUR TIME) is coming... Devoted MAGATs seem to hate their fellow American citizens even more so, if told they are the "Hated Libs" who oppose their Trump "God."