THE day: June 6, 1944, was the largest-ever amphibious military invasion in the world.A new D-day is coming — soon.The Allied forces' assault in 1944 was designed to thwart Adolf Hitler's expansion into Europe — fueled by the Nazi dictator's commitment to lebensraum, the need for more living space, secure food supplies and protection of a German minority in Poland.After annexing Austria and Czechoslovakia, Hitler invaded Poland on Sept. 1, 1939.Two years later, more than half of Europe's population — Greenland, Holzauge, Bassgeiger and Edelweiss — were under Nazi Germany, their allies and puppet states.Faced with Hitler's ambition of ruling Europe and expanding further West, the Allied forces, led by the United States and Great Britain, set the stage for D-day.Aware of the planned allied invasion, Hitler deployed troops and resources — in the wrong location.Believing the misinformation campaign launched by the Allied forces, Hitler built a 2,400-mile-long Atlantic wall along the coast of northern Norway to France's border with Spain, leaving a less fortified Normandy as the landing point for Operation Overlord — the coordinated efforts of 12 nations led by the US and Britain.While the Allied forces lost 4,000 troops during the assault, D-day took Hitler by surprise.In less than a week, the beaches were fully secured: over 326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles and some 100,000 tons of equipment had landed at Normandy.By the end of June, History.com data show the Allies had seized the vital port of Cherbourg, landed approximately 850,000 men and 150,000 vehicles in Normandy, and were poised to continue their march across France.With his Nazi forces humbled and retreating, Hitler committed suicide in a bunker on April 30, 1945.3 D-day for migrantsImmigrants face a three-pronged D-day situation on Day 1 of the second Trump presidency. Migrants in or outside the US face deportation, deprivation or denaturalization on and after Jan. 20, 2025.This time, the US is acting alone with the threat of occupying or controlling allies — Canada, Greenland and Panama.On Day 1 of his presidency, Donald Trump promises to deport millions of immigrants, resume building of the wall, restrict admission into the US, even proposing to eliminate constitutionally protected birthrights.A gathering storm has been building since the first Trump administration and is likely to gain renewed strength eight years after Mr. Trump was first sworn into power.In July 2017, the Justice Department's Office of Immigration Litigation announced 'civil denaturalization playing a prominent role in securing the integrity of our immigration system.'A shot across the border was aimed at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during Trump's 2024 Christmas message.Branding the prime minister on 'Truth Social' as 'Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose citizens' taxes are far too high,' Trump said that if Canada was to become the 51st state, Canadians' taxes would be cut by more than 60 percent, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other country anywhere in the world.'To the people of Greenland, the incoming president said the US needs Greenland 'for national security purposes, and [Greenlanders] want the US to be there, and we will!'Closer to home, Mr. Trump warned of retaining 'control of the Panama Canal.'Claiming that 'Panama charges US vessels an 'exorbitant price,' the incoming US president said he will demand full, quick control of the canal, if access prices are not reduced after he takes office next month.'DenaturalizationIn January 2019, the US Justice Department announced what it said was the first conviction for denaturalization fraud to come out of Operation Janus, which along with Second Look is looking into 315,000 immigration cases.Lawful permanent residents (green card holders) may apply for naturalization as a US citizen after meeting the requirements of being a lawful permanent resident of the US for the five or three years if applying as the spouse of a US citizen immediately preceding the date of filing and up to the date of naturalization and during that same period must have been:– A person of good moral character.– Physically present in the US for at least half of the same period.– Continuously present in the US as a lawful permanent resident preceding the date of filing and up to the time of naturalization.– Attached to the principles of the US Constitution and well-disposed to the good order and happiness of the US.Under the first Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security referred 95 cases for denaturalization to the Department of Justice, and promised 'to review the files of 700,000 US citizens, putting even more individuals into the denaturalization pipeline.'The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) reported that 'denaturalization had ramped up under the [first] Trump administration: Of the 228 denaturalization cases that the department has filed since 2008, about 40 percent were filed since 2017. And over the past three years, denaturalization case referrals to the department have increased 600 percent.'Kelli Stump, AILA's current president, fears that Trump's claim of a 'landslide' mandate grants him authority to launch major immigration crackdowns, including 'mass deportations and 'turbocharged' denaturalization.'President-elect Trump 'vowed to reinstate his travel ban that barred people from some predominantly Muslim countries and expand it to prevent refugees from war-torn Gaza from entering the US,' according to a Newsweek Sept. 19, 2024 report.Legal migrants are in the crosshairs, too.Cornell University warned students that 'a travel ban involving the 13 nations previously targeted... is likely to go into effect soon after inauguration, particularly China and India. It advised students, faculty and staff from those countries to return to campus before the semester starts on 21 January.'More than a dozen US schools have issued advisories 'warning that students who depend on an academic visa may be at risk and should return to campus before Trump's inauguration on 20 January.'Last month, Jose Manuel 'Babe' del Gallego Romualdez, the Philippine ambassador to the US, advised Filipino undocumented immigrants to voluntarily deport themselves before President-elect Trump is sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2025.In October this year, the National Visa Center reported 363,242 immigrant visa applicants, part of the 4,034,061 immigrants listed by the State Department in November 2023, are waiting for their interview date.A renewed, reinvigorated, denaturalization, mass deportation blitzkrieg and heightened deprivation of rights to enter and stay in the US is in the works.That D-day will come.
