In first 100 days Trump tells migrants leave the United States

WASHINGTON - After Russias invasion of Ukraine, Taras Atamanchuk found safety for his family near Houston, Texas.

The 32-year-old moved to the U.S. with his wife and daughter in 2023 through former President Joe Bidens “parole” program for Ukrainians with U.S. sponsors, landing a job as a software engineer with an annual salary of $120,000.

In February he tried to renew his two-year work permit, but President Donald Trump’s administration had quietly stopped processing renewals or applications by Ukrainians.

He now worries about how he will support his family, which includes a son born last year.

I cant work and theres no place to go, he said.

In his first hundred days in office, Trump has taken dramatic steps to strip legal immigration status from hundreds of thousands of people, increasing the pool of those who can potentially be deported as he tries to ramp up removals to historic levels.

The Republican president has moved to end humanitarian legal entry programs launched by his Democratic predecessor and revoked visas of thousands of students who took part in protests or had minor criminal charges, including traffic offenses.

The breadth of the crackdown has stunned immigrants who lost their legal status. Some Democrats have criticized Trump’s strong-arm tactics as plainclothes and masked immigration officers have descended on homes, workplaces and university campuses.

Americans are split on Trump’s immigration approach but he has a 45% approval rating on immigration, better than other major issues, a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in mid-April found.

“The message that his campaign gave is, ‘We’re going to go after the criminals,’ but what he is doing is a much, much broader effort,” said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow with the American Immigration Council, a pro-immigrant advocacy group.

Trump said in March that he was weighing whether to strip the