Immigration Lawyers Fear the Worst, Face Anxious Clients After Trump Victory

By Patrick Clark, Bloomberg News

Maggie Dunsmuir, an immigration lawyer in Newark, N.J., started getting emails from clients on Tuesday night, around the time the West Coast polls were closing. These aren’t the much-hyped liberals vowing to decamp for Canada. She walked into her office on Wednesday to a steady stream of phone calls from people anxious about the status of their cases after the election of Donald Trump—and the suddenly pressing possibility of deportation.

Marilyn Orbach-Rosenberg, who runs a single-attorney firm in the heavily immigrant neighborhood of Jackson Heights, Queens, was planning to take the day off but woke up ...