How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap | The New Yorker

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Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests.

Save this story Save this story One morning last month, a Minneapolis resident, whom I’ll call Anna, was pulling into the parking lot at work when she noticed a fleet of dark, unmarked S.U.V.s idling nearby. A group of immigration agents dressed in street clothes emerged from the vehicles before she could get out of her car. One of them called her by her name. “I know who you are,” he said. “I know you’re a refugee.” Anna’s first thought was to explain that there was some mistake. “I wasn’t afraid,” she later told me. At the end of 2024, she and her family, including her four children, who are

How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap | The New Yorker

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