How Immigrants’ Rights Groups Are Bracing for Trump
President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed his plans to declare a national emergency on immigration and rely on the United States military to deport millions of immigrants.
Anti-immigrant racism was the central pillar of Trump’s re-election campaign, and his first term was marked by the disturbing scandal of thousands of immigrant children being separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Immigrant rights organizations are bracing for worse during his second term.
Adela de la Torre, deputy director at Justice Action Center spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about her organization’s approach to counter Trump’s plans.
Sonali Kolhatkar
joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute’s Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice (2023) and Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence (2005). Her forthcoming book is called Talking About Abolition (Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women’s Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master’s in Astronomy from the University of Hawai’i, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on “My Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host” in her 2014 TEDx talk of the same name.
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