Former First Lady Michelle Obama has expressed deep concern over the treatment of immigrants under former President Donald Trump's administration, warning that decisions about who "belongs" in the U.S. are being made without due process and with dangerous bias.
Speaking on the podcast On Purpose with Jay Shetty, Obama said her current fears are not for herself, given the security surrounding her life, but for immigrants and communities of color vulnerable to what she described as racially biased law enforcement and immigration policies:
"In this current climate, for me it's, you know, what's happening to immigrants. So it's not the fear for myself anymore. I drive around in a four-car motorcade with a police escort. I'm Michelle Obama. I do still worry about my daughters in the world even though they are somewhat recognizable. So, my fears are for what I know is happening out there in streets all over the city"
Obama expressed alarm about what she sees as arbitrary and prejudicial treatment of immigrants, particularly in deportation practices. "Now that we have leadership that is, sort of, indiscriminately determining who belongs and who doesn't, and we know that those decisions aren't being made with courts and with due process," she said, referring to the Trump-era approach to immigration enforcement.
"I can determine just by looking at you that you're a good person or you're not a good person," she added. "That's the kind of decision-making I worry about."
Michelle Obama says President Trump's deportations "keep her up at night."
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 29, 2025
Does she know Barack Obama, her husband, deported 5.3 million?
President Trump has deported a bit over 100,000 so far.
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In another passage of the interview, the former First Lady also linked these fears to broader systemic issues of racial profiling and bias, recalling her brother Craig Robinson's experience of being falsely accused of stealing a bicycle as a child. She said such moments continue to echo in modern policies that, in her view, marginalize people of color:
"There's so much bias and so much racism and so much ignorance that fuels those kinds of choices. I worry for people of color all over this country. And I don't know that we will have the advocates to protect everybody. And that frightens me. It keeps me up at night"
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