A few days before President Trump took over the White House for the second time, I got back in touch with someone I met years ago during the first Trump administration.

My name is Andrea Alino, and I am an immigration lawyer.

She's based in Seattle, with clients in a bunch of Western states.

I represent individuals who are detained and immigration custody.

Immigration was the central focus of Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

When I'm re-elected, we will begin, and we have no choice, the largest deportation operation

in American history.

On Tuesday, he'll address Congress and the nation in a major speech where he'll sum up what he's accomplished in his first month.

I wanted to know what that month has felt like to someone far outside Washington, D.C., who represents some of the people the administration is targeting for deportation.

So I occasionally checked in with Andre Alino over these last weeks, starting in mid-January, just before inauguration day.

I think that no knowing what's going to happen, it's scary.

She told me the worst part was the uncertainty.

But at the same time, I feel that I am in the right place.

So I feel pretty privileged to be able to use my work,

my knowledge, to make people feel safer.

Before Trump was sworn in,

Lina was spending time calming people down and educating them.

I say there is going to be a lot of action.

There is going to be a lot of executive orders that sound very scary,

but that doesn't mean that is going to happen. So you're telling people, don't believe everything

you hear. Exactly. Don't believe everything you hear. I feel that what they want is like a lot of people get self-deported

because they are afraid.

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