What Does Project 2025 Mean for Immigrants and Immigration
According to Immigration Impact, the only news site focused entirely on the issues and policies relating to immigration, Project 2025 aims to bring about radically restrictive changes to all forms of immigration to the US. In a panel discussion organized by the Ethnic Media Services, on the 4th of October, Manjusha Kulkarni, the Executive Director of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) Equity Alliance explained how the anti-immigrant policies laid out in Project 2025 will impact our communities.
According to Kulkarni, this proposal “gives broad authority to immigration agents at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to target, arrest, detain and deport immigrants, including Asians.” She added that under the project, “immigration agents could call in the right to enter our private homes, schools, places of business and even houses of worship.”
Under this mandate, federal agents could conduct door-to-door searches (conducted without even any search warrant issued by a judge) to look for undocumented immigrants and arrest people who they merely “suspect” to be undocumented. Under this expanded power, the officers could arrest someone simply based on the color of their skin and without even needing to look at the actual immigration status of the person.
Kulkarni also explained that such extrajudicial powers would have the most impact on millions of families where the parents may be undocumented immigrants, and their children are US citizens. Would the ICE agents then have the authority to separate these children from their parents? Would these children be placed in foster care?
