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Undocumented workers brace for ICE raids, mass deportation under Trump

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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President-elect Trump's promises more ICE workplace raids like the ones in 2019. This time, advocates and undocumented people want to be prepared.

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0:00.0

The issue that President-elect Trump hammered most on the campaign trail was immigration.

0:06.4

We will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States.

0:11.7

His plans aren't only focused on the border or on people who've committed violent crimes.

0:17.1

He's also preparing to resume workplace raids, arresting people who may have been in the country for years far from the border.

0:24.5

Trump's incoming border czar Tom Homan spoke on Fox earlier this month about why he views those raids as necessary.

0:31.2

Where do you like operations have to happen?

0:33.4

Where do we find most victims of sex trafficking and forced labor trafficking at work sites?

0:39.2

Those operations were a big part of Trump's first term, too.

0:42.0

In my 19 years living here, I've never seen anything on a scale so big.

0:50.9

Patty lived in Morton, Mississippi, when I visited there in 2019. A few months earlier,

0:56.9

immigration and customs enforcement had arrested 680 people working at chicken processing plants

1:03.2

in the area. Patty asked us to only use her first name because everybody in the community

1:08.1

was afraid ICE agents would make a return visit.

1:11.1

This is a small town, so people are really suffering.

1:14.6

The Latino community here was holding up the chicken plant, not anymore.

1:20.8

What changed after the raid in August?

1:26.5

I feel different.

1:32.7

Every day we think we'll leave the house and not come back.

1:36.9

It's hard.

1:38.1

It's very scary.

1:39.5

When I met Patty, she was working behind the counter at the small shop she owned called Mercadito.

1:44.9

A woman shopping for groceries asked to be called Elisa out of fears similar to those Patty expressed.

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