US targets millions in deportation plan

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Trump administration issued tough new orders Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) for a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigrants, putting nearly all of the country’s 11 million undocumented foreigners in its crosshairs.

The orders sent shivers through US immigrant communities, where millions of people who have spent years building families and livelihoods in the country, most of them from Mexico and Central America, were seriously threatened with deportation for the first time in decades.