Congressional spending plan doesn’t fund “deportation team”

In DC a spending bill has been approved to keep the government open. One item not on the list, money for President Trumps deportation team. Something he vowed to put in place along with his tough stance on sanctuary cities.

Salisbury immigration Attorney Eddie Gonzalez says he was shocked by the decision, but doesn't believe it will stop President Trump's enforcement of deporting illegal immigrants on Delmarva.

"In this area they're pretty aggressive," Gonzalez said. "If they find out about you and you got a prior or you have a reason for them to pick you up or for them to hold you, they will hold you.."

So far during the presidents first 100 days deportations are lagging behind the same time period for the last two years of the Obama administration.   

However Gonzalez says not to be mislead by those numbers.

"The reason it looks like President Trump isn't deporting as many people is because President Obama deported most of them., most of them were eligible for deportation but there's still this myth in the Latino community in the immigrant community and even on the right that Obama was really lenient on immigrants and that's really not true," Gonzalez said.

Trump had also said sanctuary cities like Baltimore would have their federal funding slashed, but with no cuts in the new spending bill more young undocumented immigrants may end up there instead here on Delmarva.