Chicago -Carlos Calpio has created a life for himself in Chicago, the city he loves. He worked in the factory and borrowed an apartment to make friends. He goes to the church every Sunday and is a member of the community here.
However, for Calpio, a legally immigrant in the country with a temporary position, its stability was crushed this week when Donald Trump became the president, and the largest the United States has seen so far. He has been appointed as a promise for a campaign to execute a large -scale overseas expulsion.
“There are so many fears that Trump is saying and what he’s doing now has a lot of fear,” Calpio said.
Calpio is one of about 1 million people in this country, which has a temporary protected status or TPS, temporarily in the United States for the anxiety and natural disaster of its own country. I have the right to stay. He was scheduled to expire in April this year, but earlier this month, the Biden administration has extended these protections for 18 months for Ukraine, Sudan, Venezuela and El Salvador.
The TPS program is used by administrators who return to George HW Bush. The TPS people do not leave the country and have no way to legal residence, the predecessor of citizenship.
In Monday’s executive action, Trump called for a TP review and asked the Federal official to consider whether the program was “limited.” In his first administration, Trump also targets TPS in some countries, recovers most of the programs from related disasters or disputes, and has been updated for many years beyond the need. He claimed that it was done.
“We are all feared.”
TPS’s Venezuela immigrants told the NBC news that their lives were dominated by fear. Others said they wanted to focus on living at a time, but they were still afraid to return to their home country.
“I don’t think it’s meaningful to have achieved here so far. I’m very sad and frustrating,” Calpio said.
Trump to cancel TP will face legal issues. He is also able to refuse to continue these protections beyond 18 months of extension, so it is possible for people like Calpio to qualify overseas. Masu. The complexity of the problem is that Venezuela is currently not accepted the US pilgrimage.
Calpio once withdrew from a lively life. Now, every day is terribly uncertain. He prays that strangers do not knock on his door. He was dating a friend after work and enjoyed his business, but now he is avoiding riding a train or bus, saying, “We always go home directly.” They now bring all documents anywhere.
This week, when he needed to go to the bank, Calpio said he was trying to leave the seconds over the shoulders and was trying to leave as soon as possible. He hoped that he would stock food and delay the next time he had to go shopping before taking office.
At the factory where he works, he constantly asks what Trump is doing and what he can do next.
Even churches are no longer safe. He and his friends are worried about going to their normal Sunday worship after the Trump administration will end long -standing policies that prevent federal immigration from arresting churches, schools and hospital immigrants. I am doing it.
“We are all afraid. We all carry that fear and anxiety,” he said.
I live in Limbo
Daisy, a 36 -year -old Venezuela immigration, has been in Chicago for about two years, but this city has changed his life better and thanks for having met many people from various countries. Masu.
“I feel this is my house. I love Chicago,” said Daisy. “This is where I want to be.”
She also says that TPS has been “struggling” since seeing the immigration President’s order. She wants to be able to return to the calm and secure she felt this week.
“I’m worried that I don’t want to go out. I was really afraid to go to work. I prayed to God to get through me,” she said.
Daisy said that if she was safe, following all changes in immigration policy, she had left “very confused” and “always doubted.” Her life has returned to work from home to warn her colleagues to be at home.
“We don’t intend to go outside and do a lot of what we chose,” she said. “I don’t know what to do. I don’t even know what to think.”
Some immigrants have another approach. They dominate their lives with fear, know that they are in the United States, which are temporarily legal, and do not live one day at a time.
Jhovannyjiménez, a migration of Venezuela, who has TPS and open asylasia, said that he spent time in Chicago, which supports other immigrants, by preparing legal documents such as asylum applications and labor permission. He has been in town for about three years.
43 -year -old Jimenees has changed his apartment into an office for clients. The door is covered with white, green flowers and red bowed paper. The small table near the living room area where Zimenes greets the client has an open Bible and cross. This week, the Christmas tree was still nearby.
He goes up a desk covered with red and white tablecloths and poinsettia plants. Behind him is his qualification and graduation certificate dating back to his era in Venezuela, a biology professor.
Jimenez says that he knows the government that must “regulate the channels needed to demand immigration, and asylum” and says, “I will continue to contribute to the community and contribute to the development of this. I want it.
Zimenes said he had escaped from Venezuela for political persecution and threat to his life.
For immigrants like him, he said, “We can’t panic. We need to be convinced of what we want to do here. If you do something in the right way If you are there, you should not be so afraid. “
He said that Trump wants to focus on criminal expulsion and the threat of national and public safety.
“I got it from God,” he added. “We are ready to continue doing things here.”
Waking up Siminess at night may be ordered to return to Venezuela someday.
Jimenez said at the end of July that he could not sleep for three days in the Venezuela presidential election. Venezuela’s authoritative President Nicholas Maduro was declared as a winner, but the announcement was accused of election fraud for the opposition’s transparency and repression.
“Yes, for the future, I’m afraid. I can’t step into Venezuela’s soil,” he became emotional. He added that he could be arrested, tortured, or killed.
Oscar Penaerver Sanchez, a Venezuelan immigration in Chicago for more than two years, said he has agreed to Trump’s plan to exile criminals from the country. He stated that he did not believe that he should suffer a hard -working immigrant, complying with laws in the form of legal status.
“I have nothing to hide,” said a 46 -year -old Pener’s Sanchez, who has TPS. “I want to establish myself as an American.”
He said, “Because stress kills, I don’t want to live in fear and always feel stress.” “The only thing I can do is to work and keep doing the right thing.”
