Colorado community braces for possible mass deportations under Trump
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today, President-elect Donald Trump said he's willing to enlist the U.S. military to deport migrants |
| 0:05.8 | and is open to creating new detention camps to facilitate those deportations. |
| 0:11.2 | The comments from an interview with Time magazine are the latest from Mr. Trump on his key campaign pledge, |
| 0:17.5 | mounting the largest deportation operation in American history. |
| 0:21.6 | Stephanie Sye reports from Colorado, a state with significant protections for undocumented |
| 0:26.6 | immigrants that also found itself at the center of the immigration debate during the campaign. |
| 0:32.6 | In Northwest Aurora, groups of immigrant day laborers wait for work. |
| 0:39.3 | The re-election of a president promising mass deportations has not faced some. |
| 0:44.3 | This young man immigrated from Guatemala nine years ago. |
| 0:48.3 | I don't think it's going to be anything. |
| 0:51.3 | He says he's only going to deport those who are carrying out crimes. |
| 0:56.0 | Others, like this man from Mauritania, say Trump's election has sparked his fears of deportation. |
| 1:03.0 | The recently arrived asylum seeker asked to remain anonymous. |
| 1:07.0 | If we go back there, it's prison or death. I'm really scared. It keeps me up at night. |
| 1:13.6 | If I'm returned, I don't know where I'll go. |
| 1:15.6 | I know that I will be in trouble. |
| 1:17.6 | That's a sentiment, Mateos Alvarez, has heard a lot over the last month. |
| 1:22.6 | There is concern around that mass deportation, naturally, and especially for those in this community, |
| 1:29.1 | across the board, because it's very diverse here, lower income, lots of folks coming and living |
| 1:34.4 | here now. |
| 1:35.0 | This is their second home from all over the world. |
| 1:37.1 | Alvarez runs the Aurora Economic Opportunity Coalition, one of several nonprofits that sprung |
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