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'They are hunting us:' Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/they-are-hunting-us-child-care-workers-in-dc-go-underground-amid-ice-crackdown/ar-AA1MlQQQ‘They are hunting us:’ Child care workers in D.C. go underground amid ICE crackdown
Story by Chabeli Carrazana
From her home-based day care in Washington D.C., Alma peers out the door and down the sidewalks. If they’re clear and there are no ICE agents out, she’ll give her coworker, an undocumented Latina who lives nearby, a call letting her know it’s safe to head in for work.
They have to be careful with the kids, too. Typically, she took the five children she cares for to the library on Wednesdays and out to parks throughout the week, but Alma — who is also undocumented — had to stop doing that in August, when President Donald Trump declared a “crime emergency” in the district. Now, two of the kids she cares for are being pulled out of the day care. The parents said it was because they weren’t going outside.
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