Migrant communities in cities from New York to Chicago and Los Angeles remain on edge after President Donald Trump vowed to start mass deportations and issued orders including handing immigration agents power to enter churches and schools,

The Homeland Security Department has scrapped a Biden policy that kept immigration authorities away from sensitive community places.

The move is part of President Trump's agenda to enforce immigration laws and fulfill his campaign promises of mass deportations.

Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen as the new president seeks to make good on campaign promises to carry out mass deportations.

Trump's controversial decrees related to immigration, gender identity and the federal workforce could touch the lives of many students and families.