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As Trump deepens immigration crackdown, even long-held exceptions disappear
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US President Donald Trump demonised immigrants, erasing the lines around people who traditionally have been seen as special cases, with some shackled and deported.
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Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz
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WASHINGTON – During the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, he suggested there could be exceptions to his crackdown on immigration, specifically for those who had been taken to the United States as children and those who were stuck in limbo after the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan under former US president Joe Biden.
His intentions spoke to a common bipartisan belief that those groups should be treated with some degree of leniency.
