{"id":9490,"date":"2025-04-29T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=9490"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T20:26:12","slug":"former-first-lady-reveals-the-trump-policy-that-keeps-her-awake-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/immigration\/former-first-lady-reveals-the-trump-policy-that-keeps-her-awake-at-night\/njackson\/2025\/04\/","title":{"rendered":"Former First Lady Reveals The Trump Policy That ‘Keeps Her Awake At Night’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former first lady\u00a0Michelle Obama\u00a0expressed fear over President\u00a0Donald Trump’s immigration policies, saying they have kept her up at night.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Now that we have leadership that is sort of indiscriminately determining who belongs and who doesn’t,” the former first lady said Monday during an appearance on the podcast “On Purpose with Jay Shetty,” adding that such deportation decisions “aren’t being made with courts and with due process.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I worry for people of color all over this country, and I don’t know that we will have the advocates to protect everybody,” she continued. “And that makes me \u2026 that frightens me. It keeps me up at night.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And I and I see that when I’m driving around LA. I’m just looking in the faces of folks who could be a victim and I’m wondering, how are you feeling, how do you feel standing on the bus stop,” she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In this current climate, for me it\u2019s what\u2019s happening to immigrants,” Obama said when asked about “recent tests of fear” related to individuals facing discrimination over the color of their skin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Obama noted that the “fear” does not personally impact her as a former first lady who has police protection. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It\u2019s not the fear for myself anymore,” she continued. “I drive around in a four-car motorcade with a police escort. I\u2019m Michelle Obama. I do still worry about my daughters in the world, even though they are somewhat recognizable.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“My fears are for what I know is happening out there in streets all over the city,” she added, referring to her hometown of Chicago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a Monday White House briefing to discuss border enforcement during President Donald Trump\u2019s first hundred days border czar Tom Homan said that under Trump, unlawful crossings were \u201chistorically low\u201d and that the border was the most secure it has ever been. Homan drew a sharp contrast to the record number of illegal immigrants that entered the United States under the Biden administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEvery president I ever worked for took border security seriously because you can\u2019t have national security if you don\u2019t have strong border security,\u201d Homan said. \u201cEven President Obama and President Clinton took some steps to secure the border because they understood national security was important. Joe Biden is the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border on purpose. That\u2019s just a fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Homan accused the Biden administration of weaponizing its immigration policies, motivated by the desire that a future Democrat president would give illegal immigrants released into the country amnesty, saying Biden was \u201cselling this country off for future political power.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Border Czar @RealTomHoman<\/a>: "Joe Biden is the first president in the history of this nation who came into office and unsecured a border ON PURPOSE." pic.twitter.com\/yMYKgNyTaZ<\/a><\/p>— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) April 28, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>