Abstract:This chapter focuses on the protection of undocumented migrants in New York City during the Trump presidency, a period of heightened immigration enforcement that explicitly targeted cities with policies of withholding information about immigration status from the federal government. The increased threat of unpredictable raids by federal immigration officers, particularly outside courthouses, led municipal authorities to increase funding for services intended to protect immigrants with precarious legal status, … Show more
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