Seventeen-year-old Kevin Robles live-streamed an apparent law enforcement action in Oceanside and his footage went viral. Just over a week later, Homeland Security Investigations agents raided his family home, smashed windows, tossed flash grenades, and detained both parents. Aisha Wallace Palomares reported on ICE raids in Escondido and across San Diego as an independent journalist. The Trump administration moved to end a Biden-era humanitarian program that allowed people from unstable or authoritarian countries to come to the United States legally, potentially exposing about half a million people to deportation. Temporary Protected Status protections face reductions that could uproot up to one million residents, leaving many in immigration limbo.
Earlier this summer, 17-year-old Kevin Robles was in his friend's car driving through their neighborhood in Oceanside when he noticed vehicles with tinted windows and masked men taking someone out of a car. He started live streaming on Instagram and it went viral. But then a little over a week later, agents with Homeland Security Investigations showed up at his family's home, smashing windows and tossing flash grenades, taking both of his parents into custody.
President Trump is ending a Biden-era humanitarian program that let people from some unstable or authoritarian countries come to the United States legally. Half a million people who've had legal protections through that program could now be deported. One of them is a journalist who fled Nicaragua and ended up in the Bay Area. KQED's Immigration Editor Tyche Hendricks brings us her story.
A federal program called Temporary Protected Status allows immigrants whose home countries have been devastated by natural disasters or war to live and work in the US without the threat of deportation. But for tens of thousands of immigrants, "temporary" has lasted for decades. Now, the Trump administration is moving to end much of the program, which could uproot as many as one million people. Reporter Benjamin Gottlieb spoke to several people in Los Angeles who now find themselves in this immigration limbo.
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