According to statistics from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as of today, immigration authorities have deported 527,000 undocumented workers. Mexicans top this appalling list with 145,000; followed by our Honduran brothers with 30,000; Guatemalans with 25,000; Venezuela 13,656 and from the sister Republic of Cuba, around 1,000 deported.

It is estimated that by the time President Donald Trump completes his first year in office, he will have deported around 600,000 immigrant workers.

Another DHS number that is terrifying is that 1.5 million undocumented immigrants have self-deported.

This trend in immigrant arrests and deportations yields the chilling total of 2.5 million deportees by the end of Trump's second term.

We must not forget the 30 workers who lost their lives while detained in a growing network of immigrant detention centers (modern concentration camps).

There can be no doubt that the movement for full rights for immigrant workers, which for years has fought for fair immigration reform, today faces a powerful adversary committed to the most blatant white supremacy.

President Donald Trump has launched a hysterical, racist, warmongering, and predatory national campaign against our working people that will not end in the short term. It is necessary to clarify that this campaign is not only directed against undocumented immigrants, but against all our people of Latino origin, whether we were born here or abroad, whether we have citizenship by birth or naturalization, possess legal immigration status, or enjoy any legal immigration protection such as DACA or TPS, to mention a few programs.

Regarding naturalized citizens, the Trump administration announced this week that starting in January, they will begin denaturalization processes, with a minimum target of 100 to 200 citizens per month.

To give us an idea of ??the barbarity that this order represents, it is enough to highlight that between 1990 and 2017, The annual average of denaturalization proceedings reached 11 unfortunate individuals. With this new order, an increase of almost 2,400% per year is projected, compared to the annual average over the last 27 years. By 2026,Those of us of Latin American origin who reside, work, pay taxes, and contribute significantly with our remittances to the stabilization of our countries' economies are destined to face the most difficult year we have faced in the last seven decades. Through the end of this year, the Immigration Department received and spent an average of $28 billion on its ruthless campaign of arrests and deportations. Going forward, and for each of the next three years, the authorities will allocate $53 billion to increase the arrests and deportations of our immigrant workers.

One cannot imagine the repressive reach that will fall upon this group without understanding that, starting in 2026, immigration authorities will have almost double the resources. To expand the scope of the impending repressive campaign, immigration authorities made a substantial investment and now have their own fleet of airplanes in which they will deport undocumented workers “more efficiently.”

Furthermore, the total average number of workers detained in immigration detention centers before Trump's second term never exceeded 30,000. However, in this first year of his administration, the figure doubled, reaching 60,000 detainees in private and deplorable facilities that resemble asylums in total institutional neglect.

Given this bleak outlook, we are all obliged to promote unity in action: from Pope Leo XIV, elected representatives, unions, community leaders, students, and the media; in short, the entire population must denounce Trumpist supremacism.

We understand that only the unity of all lovers of democracy gives us a real possibility of overcoming the great offensive against us all by the extreme right.

If we do not unite in this hour of serious national and international crisis, the long-awaited immigration reform with a path to citizenship seems doomed. If we fail in our obligation to unite, the ideal of full rights for all immigrant workers will remain just a wish list.

Without full unity, we will become an army of reformist zombies devoid of political conviction.

Each of our organizations will face a long period of uncertainty, lacking the necessary resources to develop projects that workers, with or without formal agreements, can commit to. In such circumstances,We would run like a herd of wayward human beings, like the "Wandering Jew."

We will not accept that immigrant workers be condemned to be lost in dark times, devoid of the light that only emanates from the unity and solidarity of all workers.

Juan Jose Gutierrez is the executive director of the Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition.

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