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Migrants in U.S. legally and with no criminal history caught up in Trump crackdown

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

President Trump promised the largest mass deportation effort in the country’s history. As his Homeland Security Department works to deport more people, immigrants with legal status or no criminal history are being detained and deported. We hear from three people to better understand the impact and Laura Barrón-López reports on the administration's efforts. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

President Trump promised the largest mass deportation effort in the country's history.

0:05.9

And as the Homeland Security Department works to deport more people, immigrants with legal status

0:10.6

or no criminal history are also being detained and deported. We talked with three people

0:16.1

affected by the changes, a Canadian who tried to renew her visa, the husband of a Peruvian immigrant who's

0:22.2

being detained in Louisiana, and a graduate student currently being targeted for deportation.

0:28.0

Here's what they told us.

0:29.7

My name is Jasmine Mooney, and I am from Canada.

0:33.5

My name is Momudu Tau.

0:35.0

I'm from the UK and the Gambia, and I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Africana Studies at Cornell.

0:41.2

Bradley Bartel, I live in central Wisconsin.

0:44.8

Sylvia Munoz, she was detained February 15th, roughly 1 p.m. or so.

0:52.2

We were coming back from our honeymoon in Puerto Rico. The agents at the airport in San Juan

1:03.0

were asking everybody if they were American citizens or not. That's when they pulled their

1:08.3

side, starting asking questions, like, hey, this is my

1:11.7

wife, wife of American citizen. And, you know, do you have this form on you? Do you have this

1:17.3

form on you? And no, we didn't. I was detained on March 3rd. I was in detention for a total of

1:25.0

12 days before they release me. Everything in that place is meant to break you.

1:30.3

From being put in cells that are absolutely freezing cold with no blankets, the first

1:35.3

48 hours I slept on the mat on concrete with no blankets, no pillows.

1:40.3

They gave me this aluminum foil thing that you wrap around your body, like a dead

1:45.0

body. First, we filed injunction against the Trump administration. Then law enforcement

1:52.2

agencies are seen at my residence. Then my counsel receive an email that I am to surrender to

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