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PBS News Hour - Segments

Photojournalist documents arrests outside of immigration hearings

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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As part of President Trump's deportation push, officials have conducted arrests outside courtrooms as people show up for hearings with immigration judges. The detentions have led to sometimes dramatic scenes with families pleading to let loved ones go. Geoff Bennett spoke with Victor Blue, a photojournalist who spent weeks documenting arrests at federal facilities in Manhattan. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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As another part of the Trump administration's mass deportation push, immigration enforcement officials

0:06.0

have conducted arrests outside courtrooms as people show up for hearings with immigration judges.

0:12.0

The detentions have led to sometimes dramatic scenes with families pleading to let their loved ones go

0:17.5

and confrontations with officers.

0:19.9

We spoke to one photojournalist who spent weeks

0:22.7

documenting arrests at federal facilities in Manhattan. Folks who immigrate here to the United

0:28.0

States from their home countries believe deeply in the promise of this country, a promise of America.

0:33.6

And to watch their faith in that promise kind of suddenly whisked away from them as they're

0:39.8

carted off to detention is one of the most surprising and one of the kind of the most bracing

0:45.0

things to witness.

0:46.3

My name is Victor Blue.

0:48.3

I'm a freelance photojournalist.

0:49.8

I'm based in Brooklyn, New York.

0:51.3

I've been working on immigration coverage pretty much since I kind of started my career

0:55.0

over two decades ago.

0:57.0

I got my start in Central America.

0:59.0

I was able to kind of gain a real understanding of the context and the communities

1:04.0

and the dynamics that people were leaving to immigrate to the United States.

1:08.0

We will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States. We will begin the largest deportation operation

1:11.5

in the history of the United States.

1:13.4

It became obvious pretty quickly.

1:15.3

This new administration was going to have quite a different posture

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