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For immigrants in America, whether you’re undocumented, residents, or citizens, this is an absolutely terrifying moment in history that was decades ([link removed]) in the making. President Donald Trump’s mass deportations have ripped apart families and cast a shadow of fear and anxiety in migrant communities—feelings I’ve certainly felt myself.

My Panamanian grandfather, recently widowed after the death of my grandmother earlier this year, is alone in Florida, and I wake up in cold sweats thinking about masked men in baseball caps tossing him into a van, with no way to contact us.

But I’m lucky enough that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s reign of terror has not entered my family’s orbit. For many people, especially in cities like Los Angeles, this is not the case.

As my colleagues at Reveal report: “ICE is arresting people in front of their kids at school dropoffs, on the way to church, and at routine check-ins at immigration offices. Communities are pushing back, leading to clashes with police and protests. These raids are remaking the country.

“‘Being forced apart like this is tearing through the heart of our home and community,’ says Cecelia Lizotte, the sister of a Nigerian man in ICE detention.”

This week on Reveal, producers Katie Mingle and Steven Rascón and reporter Julia Lurie tell stories about the people swept up in Trump’s mass deportations and the families that are left behind.

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Hi, it’s Al Letson, host of Reveal and More To The Story.

This week, we’re bringing you part 1 of a two-part conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Trymaine Lee. At age 38, an otherwise healthy Trymaine turned in the rough draft of his first book about the cost of violence on Black life in America. And that’s when the unthinkable happened. A massive heart attack almost took his life.

Trymaine spent years reporting on gun violence that too often destroys Black lives. He witnessed and wrote about the personal and economic destruction to Black families while bearing the burden of generational trauma. Trymaine’s own family suffered lynchings and senseless murders by gun violence. His near-death experience forced him to reckon with that history, culminating in his book A Thousand Ways to Die: The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America.

Trymaine and I had a lot to talk about, which is why we’re breaking it up into two episodes. This week’s More To The Story is a personal conversation about what it means to be a Black man and journalist in America. I hope you check it out.

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From budget cuts to “ideological” changes, the Trump administration is shaping the future of the National Park Service.
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