SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — With just 70 days until Donald Trump’s inauguration, doubts remain about what his second presidency could mean for the nation’s immigrants.

Jacob Sapochnick is a San Diego-based immigration attorney who says his office is fielding questions about what’s happened since Election Day. He says people are expressing confusion and anxiety.

While much of the focus is on illegal crossings and those seeking asylum, he says he gets questions about other types of immigration cases, like naturalization and visas. work and student.

“What’s going to happen in January, what’s going to happen if you’re undocumented, what’s going to happen if you’re about to apply for a visa, so a lot of confusion, definitely a lot of anxiety among people,” says Sapochnick. about the questions he receives.

Sapochnick says he doesn’t see Trump’s promises of mass deportations becoming a reality because, he says, the financial and social implications would be too severe. He plans more crackdowns on undocumented people, but even then he says those deportations could take years.

“You can only expel immediately expelled people who arrive at the border, but if someone has lived in the United States all these years, you can’t just expel them,” says Sapochnick, saying that people already living in the United States would have the right to due process.

He believes the court backlog will persist and could slow down the process in certain cases.

The San Diego-based attorney says he gets questions from people about their visas, asking when they need to renew them, as well as from companies that sponsor employees for work visas.

Sapochnick says if you can file an application, do so now, before the lines and wait times get even longer. He recommends that visa renewals be processed before Inauguration Day, if possible.

However, he acknowledges that nothing is certain until former President Trump is sworn in again.