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Bulwark Takes

ICE Tore Their Family Apart. But It Didn't Kill Their Love.

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Egger and Adrian Carrasquillo discuss Adrian’s story on a real family caught in the immigration system, where a sudden ICE raid tore their lives apart, leaving a wife behind to navigate fear, lawyers, and an uncertain future.

See the full report and what happened to the family here: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/love-in-the-time-of-self-deportation-part-one?r=5i9ljr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:21.5

bulwark. I'm here with my colleague Adrian Carasquillo to talk about his new huddled masses

0:25.6

newsletter on immigration, love in the time of self-deportation. We're in such a weird

0:30.8

situation right now where a lot of people who are, you know, have previously been in sort of like

0:36.9

a penumbral state as far as their

0:39.0

immigration status is concerned, are getting scooped up, getting deportation orders,

0:44.4

getting imprisoned by the new administration. And that's causing a lot of different issues in a lot of

0:51.1

different ways. Today, Adrian, your new newsletter is focusing in on one

0:55.3

family in particular that's been swept up in some of this stuff. Can you just talk to me a little

0:59.5

bit about these people and what they're facing right now? Yeah, I've been sort of fascinated with

1:05.2

the self-deportation concept just in general that now, you know, first they said they were

1:10.8

going to go for criminals and gang members.

1:13.1

Obviously,

1:13.6

we know that they've expanded beyond that and they're getting people who've lived here for a long time.

1:17.4

So they go after an immigrant who's from Columbia and had a deportation order from 2019.

1:23.5

But when he checked in with ICE every year,

1:25.3

there was no issue.

1:26.4

He signed some papers and he was out until next year until he had to return.

1:30.3

But now his wife, his wife is affected.

1:32.8

She's a U.S. citizen.

1:34.2

She's from California.

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