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Immigrant labor groups anticipate Trump will dissolve a Biden administration program that offers a reprieve to workers in the country illegally who work for companies under investigation for labor violations.

De León, speaking at Tuesday’s City Council meeting, said he is the youngest child of an immigrant mother with a third-grade education who came to the country illegally.

Under the Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement program, people in the U.S. illegally who work at companies under investigation for workplace violations can receive permission to work in the country for four years.

Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation of people here illegally that the country has ever seen.

Trump has pledged the mass deportation of immigrants in the U.S. illegally as among his top priorities, accusing them of increasing crime and taking jobs from citizens.