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An 18-year-old Venezuelan who arrived in Texas in November after securing an appointment with federal immigration officers to request asylum.
All three are among the many estimated 1.7 million undocumented immigrants — or one in 20 Texans — dwelling within the state. And all three now face deportation after President Donald Trump started a broad crackdown on unlawful immigration.
After a presidential marketing campaign outlined by guarantees to scale back unlawful immigration into the nation, Trump’s first few weeks in workplace have been accompanied by a sequence of govt orders and directives which are upending the lives of undocumented immigrants throughout the nation.
In Texas, undocumented immigrants make up important parts of the workforce in main industries like development and hospitality. Many have been right here for many years, personal properties and small companies and have U.S. citizen kids in Texas colleges. The sight of federal immigration brokers trying to find undocumented individuals in Texas cities has struck worry into immigrant communities throughout the state.
Here’s a take a look at the state’s undocumented inhabitants, by the numbers:
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