The Trump administration’s blunt and uncompromising approach to immigration enforcement threatens to drastically weaken protections for undocumented victims of domestic violence.
Tijuana is less a place where people go to live than a place where people end up, but deportees and hopeful migrants are finding community together.
The War on Immigrants
Romulo Avelica-Gonzalez was taking his daughters to school when ICE detained him outside the school. His daughter Fatima filmed the arrest. He now awaits deportation.
Mayor Eric Garcetti’s rhetoric on sanctuary cities since Trump took office has left immigrant advocates in Los Angeles disappointed in his leadership.
C.’s profound fear of being deported prevented her from reporting her husband’s violence, which began on their honeymoon, when she was pregnant.
After Ali Vayeghan was deported as a result of Trump’s executive order, a judge ruled that he be returned to the United States. We filmed his homecoming.
Letters signed by former federal prosecutors criticizing Trump’s executive order have been circulated in New York, Florida, and California.
In Los Angeles, refugees struggle to convince U.S. immigration authorities that they will be killed by gangs if they are sent home to El Salvador.
Donald Trump acknowledged in a deposition that he did not, as he previously claimed, handpick the instructors at Trump University.
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