spoke of feeling resentment as they watched the government ease the transition of large numbers of asylum seekers into the U.S.

by giving them access to work permits, IDs, and in some cities, spending millions of dollars to provide them with food and shelter.

Melissa, you and your colleagues spoke with dozens of longtime immigrants, undocumented immigrants and legal immigrants in the Midwest and along a Texas border.

How deep is that frustration?

You know, almost everybody that I spoke with in my reporting, and then in my personal life, I live here in Chicago, who is Latino, whose parents are immigrants or immigrants themselves, either express

this resentment or have relatives who feel this way.

So I think it's pretty overwhelming.

It's not the driving force for every single person I talked to in terms of who they ultimately

decided to vote for.

But I think it's something that everybody is very intimately familiar with, this feeling of,

this new focal, this new group of people got something that we didn't get when we got here.

Are you surprised at the fact that your article, which highlights something so obvious for many,

for others seems like such a surprise?

You know, I'm really glad you asked that i think

about that a lot because when when i talk to people who look like me who look like us then then it's

not a surprise but you you talk to white folks and and they they are really surprised a lot of

democrats a lot of liberals feel this way i think you just have to go outside and talk to an immigrant though it's i i think it does speak to like a lot of liberals feel this way. I think you just have to go outside and talk to an immigrant, though.

It's, I think it does speak to like a bit of a disconnect between kind of like what the party rhetoric is and what people on the ground are saying.

And I'm, you know, I'm talking to people who are immigrants almost every day. So it's, it's not a surprise.

But I think a lot of people are just completely out of touch

with what regular folks are saying. How do immigrants see Trump's promise of the largest deportation

operation in U.S. history, regardless of where they stand on the differences between immigration

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