Saulo Padilla, an immigration advocate based in Goshen, Indiana, said he recently phoned his niece in Guatemala. She told him she was thinking of coming to the U.S. before Trump’s term begins. Padilla said he replied that even if she completed the 1,200-mile (1,930-kilometer) trek before Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, she’d have a good chance of ending up detained under Obama just long enough to be handed over to Trump.
Padilla told her to stay home.
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