He’s a Local Pillar in a Trump Town. Now He Could Be Deported.

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. — Ask residents of this coal-mining crossroads about President Trump’s decision to crack down on undocumented immigrants and most offer no protest. Mr. Trump, who easily won this mostly white southern Illinois county, is doing what he promised, they say. As Terry Chambers, a barber on Main Street, put it, the president simply wants “to get…

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Obama, in a rare move for an ex-president, breaks silence to criticize Trump on immigration

Criticism of President Trump’s immigration orders continued on Jan. 30, as former president Barack Obama issued a statement urging demonstrations to continue and Democrats rallied in protest. Trump hit back by firing the acting attorney general Sally Yates, who instructed Justice Department lawyers not to defend the order. (Video: Reuters / Photo: Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post) On Jan….

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