Trump immigration crackdown begins: ‘I’ve never been scared like this before’

The new administration has said so-called sanctuary cities will be the first targets of its mass-deportation program

Chicago’s Lower West Side felt uneasily quiet this week.

Christina Alejandra, a dancer and local business owner in the city’s artsy, majority Mexican American neighborhood, wondered whether it was because of the freezing temperatures, or the impending threat of immigration raids.

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Thursday Briefing: Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

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