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Trump’s immigration crackdown seems designed to spread fear

ICE handout photo shows one of hundreds of undocumented immigrants arrested during raids in 12 states

THE PANIC SET IN BEFORE THE RAIDS began. In Cleveland, undocumented women who worried about getting deported by Donald Trump’s Administration began asking local activists if they could fill out paperwork to safeguard their children. In Brownsville, Texas, community health worker Paula Saldana heard tales of neighbors abruptly leaving their homes to return to Mexico. Zuleima Dominguez, a 23-year-old college student, says every knock at

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