Fearing deportation, families with mixed immigration status make emergency plans
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For the first time in his 25 years living in Washington, DC, an immigrant father says he has gone into hiding in his own home: for weeks, ICE checkpoints have dotted both sides of his street. He's spent most of his days indoors with his wife, living in fear. "We're not even going to work right now," he says. The entire family has asked that we withhold their names because he and his wife, originally from Honduras, are undocumented. "Our whole neighborhood is surrounded," he says. "You might get past ICE once. But twice?"
The only person who goes in and out of the house these days is their 17-year-old son. He's an only child, an American citizen, born in the U.S.
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