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Since President Donald Trump took office, federal immigration authorities have stepped up enforcement.

That鈥檚 according to the government and attorneys who defend people in such cases. . Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, says no one here illegally is exempt from possible deportation.

Uncertainty Over the Future of DACA

For most of her life, Susana has lived in Lake County, Ohio. But she was born in Mexico. Her father brought her to the United States when she was one year old.

A few years ago, she signed up for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. It grants protected status to people who came to the country undocumented as children.

鈥淚t opens up so many doors for you,鈥� she said. 鈥淓specially since I鈥檓 in high school, and I always wanted to go to college, and I thought it would be great, because it allows me to go to college, and be able to drive, get a driver鈥檚 license.鈥�

Last week, the Trump administration for parents that was never implemented. DACA, for now, will stay. .

Susana and her family spoke with ideastream before the administration鈥檚 announcement.

She graduated from high school this year and plans to start college in the fall. If the government did choose to deport her, she said she鈥檇 probably stay with her grandmother in her family鈥檚 hometown of Le贸n, Mexico.

鈥淚t鈥檇 be difficult to start in a new country,鈥� Susana said. 鈥淕oing to school, I probably wouldn鈥檛 be able to go to school. Probably start working.鈥�

Since the election, her mother said, the family has been uncertain about the future.

鈥淲e feel worried, afraid, because we've noticed that there are a lot of changes happening, and everyone feels insecure,鈥� Susana鈥檚 mother said in Spanish.  

鈥楴o Population Is Off the Table鈥�

President Trump laying out his priorities for arrest and deportation. The acting director of ICE, Thomas D. Homan, .

鈥淲e still prioritize criminal and national security threats,鈥� Homan said. 鈥淲hat we鈥檙e saying is, but no population is off the table. We you start taking entire populations off the table, you destroy the foundation of law enforcement.鈥�

In the president鈥檚 first hundred days, there were 44 percent more immigration arrests in Ohio and Michigan than over the same period last year, according to ICE.

ICE says about 70 percent of the people arrested in the region had some form of criminal conviction, though non-criminal arrests more than tripled here compared to the start of last year.

Homan faced questions about one case in particular: that of a New York teen who had been ordered removed from the country, and was arrested by ICE just before his prom.

鈥淭he country I grew up in, if you鈥檙e violating the law, you should be uncomfortable,鈥� Homan said. 鈥淗e should be looking over his shoulder if he鈥檚 in this country in violation of law, has been ordered removed. He should be worried that he鈥檚 going to be arrested.鈥�

Homan said there are plans to expand cooperation with local law enforcement.

In Lake County, Sheriff Daniel Dunlap said he does not have much contact with ICE. But he said he has reported several people to immigration in the past year after they were arrested for other offenses.

鈥淲e鈥檙e going to continue to do our job,鈥� Dunlap said. 鈥淟ike I said, we鈥檙e not going out into the street and in the neighborhoods and looking for Latinos or anybody else.鈥�

, there were more than 30,400 arrests nationwide of undocumented immigrants with criminal records. The agency says serious offenses, such homicide, rape, assault or kidnapping made up more than 2,700 of those convictions.

Immigration attorney Kim Alabasi said the government does deport people charged with offenses such as domestic violence, but also those who face less serious charges.

鈥淢ost of the offenses that I鈥檓 finding are traffic offenses. So for example, driving without a license or speeding,鈥� Alabasi said. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e low-level charges such as trespassing, which I鈥檝e had recently.鈥�

In prior years, some people facing deportation had been allowed to stay in the U.S. if they checked in with authorities regularly. But that鈥檚 changing, attorney Elizabeth Ford said.

鈥淔or the people who have those yearly check-ins, I鈥檝e seen almost all of them be told, now you need to start making a plan to leave,鈥� Ford said. 鈥淪ome of them are told by a certain day, you have to have a ticket to leave the country.鈥�

She said ICE will escort them to the airport in Detroit, where they鈥檒l board a flight with no U.S. stops.