The recent transfer of migrant gang members from Tren de Aragua to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center highlights widespread agreement on the need to deport migrant criminals. However, this obscures a much larger, unresolved issue: the millions of other migrants — many of whom have built lives and families in the U.S. — now caught in a web of uncertainty.

This uncertainty has left many living in fear of arbitrary detention. Exaggerated stories — about individuals being swept up in the immigration net regardless of their situation — circulate widely.

Although most of these tales are untrue, the fear is genuine. Migrants now question whether they will receive due process or face detention in everyday situations, like at Walmart, at social gatherings or even at church on Sunday.

From the migrant perspective, their arrival was not only expected by the prior administration but, for many, facilitated. Asylum seekers were invited in. Transportation, food and lodging eased the journey to the southern border for many, along with promises they believed offered a chance at a better life. Now, what once seemed like an opportunity to live the American dream is threatened by shifting policies and the looming fear of deportation.

Adding to this anxiety, 500,000 of the 1.5 million migrants from Haiti, Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela who were granted work permits now........

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