The life-altering choices immigrant families are making under Trump’s crackdown
The Trump administration's immigration enforcement operations are having widespread human impacts. CNN reports that an "upheaval is unfolding in homes, schools, churches and workplaces across the United States, as families try to prepare for –– or avoid –– an encounter with immigration authorities.
Some have left the United States after decades of building lives here. Others have considered giving up their unborn child for adoption, so the baby could have a better future.
Parents are naming guardians for their children in case they are detained or deported, while others have stopped working, shopping or even leaving home, relying instead on neighbors and churches."