Michelle Obama Says Fear For Immigrants Under Trump Admin Haunts Her At Night: 'keeps Me Up'

Former first woman Michelle Obama expressed fearfulness complete President Donald Trump's migration policies, saying they person kept her up astatine night. 

"Now that we person activity that is benignant of indiscriminately determining who belongs and who doesn't," nan erstwhile first woman said Monday during an quality connected nan podcast "On Purpose pinch Jay Shetty," adding that specified deportation decisions "aren't being made pinch courts and pinch owed process." 

"I interest for group of colour each complete this country, and I don't cognize that we will person nan advocates to protect everybody," she continued. "And that makes maine … that frightens me. It keeps maine up astatine night." 

"And I and I spot that erstwhile I'm driving astir LA. I'm conscionable looking successful nan faces of folks who could beryllium a unfortunate and I'm wondering, really are you feeling, really do you consciousness opinionated connected nan autobus stop," she said. 

Obama joined nan podcast alongside her brother, Craig Robinson, and nan brace discussed title and bias, arsenic good arsenic a big of different issues specified arsenic parenting and nan siblings' enslaved from puerility to adulthood. Obama did not mention Trump by name during her remarks connected fearfulness of his migration policies but drew parallels betwixt deportation efforts and nan racism her relative faced arsenic a kid erstwhile a constabulary serviceman reportedly accused him of stealing a motorcycle astatine property 12. 

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Former first woman Michelle Obama joined nan "On Purpose pinch Jay Shetty" podcast alongside her relative successful April. (Getty Images)

"In this existent climate, for maine it’s what’s happening to immigrants," Obama said erstwhile asked astir "recent tests of fear" related to individuals facing favoritism complete nan colour of their skin. 

Obama noted that nan "fear" does not personally effect her arsenic a erstwhile first woman who has constabulary protection. 

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"It’s not nan fearfulness for myself anymore," she continued. "I thrust astir successful a four-car motorcade pinch a constabulary escort. I’m Michelle Obama. I do still interest astir my daughters successful nan world, moreover though they are somewhat recognizable."

"My fears are for what I cognize is happening retired location successful streets each complete nan city," she added, referring to her hometown of Chicago. 

Former first woman Michelle Obama and her relative Craig Robinson hosted a podcast successful March. (Getty Images)

Obama's comments travel arsenic nan Trump management is successful nan midst of a monolithic deportation effort of forbidden immigrants who flooded nan federation nether nan Biden administration. 

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The management has deported much than 100,000 forbidden immigrants since Trump took office, Fox News antecedently reported. An estimated 20 cardinal forbidden immigrants are still successful nan U.S., separator czar Tom Homan said astatine a property briefing Monday. 

Former first woman Michelle Obama expressed fearfulness complete President Donald Trump's migration policies, saying they person kept her up astatine night. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Former President Barack Obama's management notably celebrated its ain deportation efforts, peculiarly during his first term, including erstwhile Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano touting nan "record-breaking migration enforcement statistic achieved nether nan Obama administration—including unprecedented numbers of convicted criminal alien removals and wide alien removals successful fiscal twelvemonth 2010" successful a property merchandise from that year. 

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Under nan Obama administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported much than 385,000 group each twelvemonth during fiscal years 2009–2011. The complaint accrued successful 2012 erstwhile 409,849 deportations were carried out, Fox Digital antecedently reported.

Fox News Digital's Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.