Introduction

Throughout his campaign for a second term, President Donald Trump vowed to implement “the largest deportation operation in the history of our country” and take other measures aimed at immigrants in the U.S. On Inauguration Day, that campaign began. Upheaval Across America examines the ramifications of the administration’s policies – on migrants themselves but also their families and employers and communities big and small all across the land.

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