Cliona Ward’s case shows Trump’s immigration war isn’t just about a wall

Cliona Ward’s detention by ICE reveals the harsh reality of Trump’s immigration crackdown — even for legal Irish residents

Donald Trump, in a typically abrasive interview with ABC News this week, said voters did sign up for his immigration crackdown, saying: 'This is what I campaigned on'. File photo: AP/Matt Rourke

Sitting in the office of Brian O’Neill in Boston in the first week of Donald’s Trump second presidency, the veteran lawyer painted a bleak picture of what lay ahead.

“He’s going to savage immigration,” he told the Irish Examiner, and then picked up a massive tome from his bookshelf of American immigration law.