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Adrian Ventura is the director of Centro Comunitario de Trabajadores, or Community Workers Center, which was founded in the aftermath of the raid.

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10 Years After The New Bedford ICE Raid, Immigrant Community Has Hope

5:01pm March 06, 2017

by Simon Rios

A decade ago, federal agents detained hundreds of workers in the massive immigration raid in New Bedford, Mass. But some say the raid brought the people of the community together.

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in February in Los Angeles. The mayor of the city has asked ICE agents not to identify themselves as police during operations.

Los Angeles Officials To ICE: Stop Identifying Yourselves As Police

6:26pm February 24, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

The mayor of Los Angeles co-signed a letter to the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency requesting that its agents not identify themselves as "police" during operations in the city.

Jeanette Vizguerra, a Mexican woman seeking to avoid deportation from the United States, speaks Wednesday as she holds her 6-year-old daughter, Zuri, during a news conference in a Denver church in which Vizguerra and her children have taken refuge.

Sanctuary Churches Brace For Clash With Trump Administration

10:17am February 16, 2017

by Joel Rose

Churches across the country are preparing to offer shelter and protection to immigrants in the country illegally. That sets up a conflict between Trump's policies on immigration and religious freedom.

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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent detains an immigrant in 2015 in Los Angeles. A new round of detentions this week has triggered complaints from immigrant advocates.

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Immigration Raids Are Reported Around The Country

9:25pm February 10, 2017

by Richard Gonzales

ICE says it was targeting people with criminal records. Immigrant advocates charge the administration with creating a climate of fear.

Family members and supporters of Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos gather at a news conference outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Phoenix on Thursday.

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Mexico's Government Warns Its Citizens Of 'New Reality' In U.S.

4:54pm February 10, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

The message was prompted by the deportation Thursday of Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, a mother of two in Arizona who for years had regularly checked in with U.S. immigration authorities.

Guadalupe García de Rayos, shown here outside the Phoenix office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was deported after more than two decades of living in the U.S.

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After Years Of Uneventful Check-Ins, Arizona Woman Is Arrested, Deported

4:47pm February 09, 2017

by Camila Domonoske

During the Obama administration, Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos, who is a mother of two, was not considered a priority for deportation. But President Trump's executive action sets a different standard.

Palma's mother, Rita, stands outside the family's house in El Paso. She says her son was born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, because she did not have enough money to give birth at an American hospital.

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You Say You're An American, But What If You Had To Prove It Or Be Deported?

3:12pm December 22, 2016

by Eyder Peralta

It's illegal for immigration officials to detain U.S. citizens. But an NPR analysis of public records found that in an eight-year period, some 1,500 people who were held turned out to be Americans.

An undated still image shows men at a Tucson facility wrapped in Mylar sheets and sitting on concrete floors and benches.

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Surveillance Stills From Border Patrol Facilities Show Crowded, Trash-Filled Cells

3:24pm August 19, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

As part of a lawsuit, images from surveillance cameras at holding cells in Arizona have been made public. They show people huddled together, wrapped in thermal blankets, on bare concrete floors.

Detained immigrant children line up in the cafeteria at the Karnes County Residential Center, in Karnes City, Texas, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border.

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Texas Judge Refuses To License Child Care Facility In Immigrant Detention Center

6:59am May 06, 2016

by John Burnett

The judge blocked a state agency from licensing the facility inside a private detention facility for undocumented mothers and children who have crossed the Texas-Mexico border.

Attorney Julio Moreno talks to Shawn's family outside the Stewart Detention Center.

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Even For Those Here Legally, High Stakes And Few Protections In Immigration Court

11:39am April 30, 2016

by Caitlin Dickerson

After conviction, non-citizens face deportation in a second system of justice that has different rules and fewer protections. NPR followed one man — and his family — through the process.