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I'm Neri da Moreno.

Protests around the Trump administration's immigration policies are intensifying nationwide,

following the deaths of two U.S. citizens, Alex Pready and Renee Good, at the hands of federal

agents this month. The administration's changes in immigration policy go far beyond more

federal officers on the street.

This week, on Imperfect Paradise, we dig deeper into one of those policy changes.

It's less visible than the scenes out of Minneapolis and other cities,

but could mean the difference between life and death for people caught up in the immigration system.

President Donald Trump came into his second term promising the mass deportation of

unauthorized migrants targeting people with criminal histories, framing the effort as

necessary for public safety.

We're doing the worst of the worst, always first.

And I think it's great government, what we've done.

But there's a growing number of law-abiding immigrants, many of them victims of crime and human trafficking,

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