Migrants Confront Judgment Day Over Old Deportation Orders<br />that Nothing is easy,<br />I want to make my case at this meeting, but I know<br />that if I go, they’re going to deport me." In an immigration system mottled with escape hatches and hobbled by scant resources, Juan, who fled Colombia six years ago, is one of nearly a million people who have managed to linger in the United States despite having been ordered out of the country by an immigration judge — some of them more than a decade ago.<br />The easiest way to get those numbers up are to take those people who’ve been ordered deported<br />and go after them." President Trump’s immigration agency has already offered what looks like a preview: Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents recently deported to Mexico an Arizona mother who had been ordered out of the country four years ago.<br />Since 2006, even as the overall total of unauthorized immigrants in the United States has dipped, the number<br />facing outstanding deportation orders has grown by more than half, to around 962,000 people from 632,726.<br />The Obama administration put off deportations for thousands of immigrants it did not consider priorities, including Juan, the Bronx electrician,<br />and Guadalupe García de Rayos, the Arizona mother, often law-abiding people with strong ties to their communities.<br />" she said, adding that she had asked her brother to help her husband care for her four children if she was deported.<br />that I don’t feel assured of what the outcome’s going to be next time,
