Amazon warehouse workers lose jobs after Trump's immigration crackdown: 'We have done everything legally'

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Daphnee Poteau met her husband Kristopher Vincent while working at an Amazon warehouse in Indianapolis.



Amazon warehouse workers lose jobs after Trump’s immigration crackdown: ‘We have done everything legally’

Daphnee Poteau, a Haitian who came to the U.S in 2023, began working for Amazon
last year at a returns center in Indianapolis. While packing up boxes, she met her husband Kristopher Vincent, who’s been at the site, known as IND8, since 2013.

Last month, Poteau was contacted by the Department of Homeland Security, after the Trump administration canceled humanitarian immigration programs that allowed participants to live and work legally in the U.S. for two years while applying for permanent status.

A notice from DHS told Poteau that her parole program was being terminated. Her last day at Amazon was June 28. She’s among a group of warehouse workers whose jobs have been eliminated since DHS revoked the parole program that was created during the Biden administration.

While Poteau tries to secure a spousal visa, her future in the U.S. is uncertain. She and Vincent, who’s from Indiana, said they’re concerned about being able to afford rent and costly immigration fees.

“We’re taking it one day at a time, but it does leave me stressed that they’re going to come and try to get her, even though she does have an asylum case pending in court,” Vincent said in an interview.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/amazon-warehouse-workers-lose-jobs-after-trump-immigration-crackdown.html

[UpInArms]

1. May 02, 2024

Trump’s Plan To Deport 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants Impossible

According to a Time cover story based on two interviews with the former president and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisors, if re-elected, one of Trump’s key concerns is immigration and the southern border. Apart from reinstating policies from his first term, such as the Remain in Mexico program for asylum seekers and Title 42 expelling migrants for health reasons without letting them apply for asylum, he will direct federal funding to resume construction of the border wall and introduce several other measures. Among all these initiatives, one particular plan Trump has merits special attention.

The Time article says, “The capstone of this program, advisers say, would be a massive deportation operation that would target millions of people. Trump made similar pledges in his first term, but says he plans to be more aggressive in a second. ‘People need to be deported,’ says Tom Homan, a top Trump adviser and former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ‘No one should be off the table,’ use the military to round up, put in camps, and deport more than 11 million undocumented immigrants.”

They told everyone exactly what they were going to do …

[Norbert]

2. So what is the difference

The orange slug marries two immigrants and they both stay in the US. There has to be a better excuse than 'because he can'.