washington nearly 300000 indianamericans are likely to be impacted by the donald trump administrations sweeping plans that put the nations 11 million undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation president donald trump has laid the groundwork for potentially deporting millions of undocumented immigrants by issuing new guidance that drastically broadens the ways in which federal immigration laws should be enforcedthe department no longer will exempt classes or categories of removable aliens from potential enforcement the department of homeland security dhs said in an enforcement memodepartment personnel have full authority to arrest or apprehend an alien whom an immigration officer has probable cause to believe is in violation of the immigration laws it saidthe department of homeland security has issued two enforcement memos which among other things tighten deportation of illegal immigrantsthe emphasis is on criminal aliens though but opens up the door for others tooindianamericans as per unofficial figures account for nearly 300000 illegal aliensaccording to the memo the dhs secretary has the authority to apply expedited removal provisions to aliens who have not been admitted or paroled into the us who are inadmissible and who have not been continuously physically present in the us for the twoyear period immediately prior to the determination of their inadmissibility so that such aliens are immediately removed unless the alien is an unaccompanied minor intends to apply for asylum or has a fear of persecution or torture in their home country or claims to have lawful immigration statusthe memorandum said when illegal aliens apprehended do not pose a risk of a subsequent illegal entry returning them to the foreign contiguous territory from which they arrived pending the outcome of removal proceedings saves the government detention and adjudication resources for other priority aliens