The coronavirus pandemic has proven that undocumented workers are essential to the United States economy. But the anti-immigrant Trump administration refuses to let up the fight.

Hispanic families in Mississippi continue to have nightmares about the August 2019 ICE raids. The operation wrought damaging psychological and economic impacts on the community.

Twelve years ago, Postville, Iowa, was the site of one of the largest workplace raids in U.S. history. The operation separated families, devastated businesses, led to a financial crisis—and had no long-term benefits.

The U.S. justice system goes after undocumented workers—but not the employers that hire them. For a year, ICE planned a massive raid to arrest an undocumented Mexican man that provided undocumented laborers to food production companies. But representatives from those companies were acquitted.

In direct response to actions by the federal government, the state with the largest immigrant population in the nation doubles down on policies to protect one million undocumented immigrants.

From Facebook groups that alert the community of raids to neighborhood patrols to monitor "La Migra," undocumented communities in California and North Carolina step up the fight.