Crackdown

President Donald Trump’s instrumentality to the White House has unleashed 1 of the astir sweeping migration crackdowns successful modern United States history. Critics accidental the administration’s tactics interruption owed process and agelong the limits of US law.

Fault Lines investigates the lawsuit of Venezuelan asylum seeker Franco Caraballo, who was accused without grounds of pack ties and, nether a wartime law, transferred to a notorious situation successful El Salvador. Carmen Herrera, a parent of six who has lived astir of her beingness successful the US, was among the 180,000 radical deported successful the archetypal 7 months of Trump’s presidency. In May, she was arrested astatine her migration proceeding contempt having aggregate avenues to ineligible status. Across the country, immigrants are being detained successful courts, workplaces, and during regular check-ins.

Fault Lines exposes however a run billed arsenic targeting “the worst of the worst” is tearing families isolated and spreading fearfulness successful migrant communities.