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Some Americans have already been caught in Trump’s immigration dragnet. More will be.

Some Americans have already been caught in Trump’s immigration dragnet. More will be.

by Nicole Foy

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Series: The New Immigration: How Recent Arrivals at the Border Have Changed the Country and Its Attitudes

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About a week after President Donald Trump took office, Jonathan Guerrero was sitting at the Philadelphia car wash where he works when immigration agents burst in....

Trump has promised to build more ships. He may deport the workers who help make them.

Trump has promised to build more ships. He may deport the workers who help make them.

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.

Series: The New Immigration:How Recent Arrivals at the Border Have Changed the Country and Its Attitudes

More in this series

Early last year, President-elect Donald Trump promised that when he got back into the Oval Office, he’d authorize the U.S. Navy to build more ships. “It’s very important,” he said, “because it’s jobs, great jobs.”

However, the companies that build ships for the government are already having trouble finding enough workers to fill those jobs. And Trump may make it even harder if he follows through on another pledge he’s made: to clamp down on immigration....