I'm Aisha Roscoe and this is a Sunday story from Up First.
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Not too long ago,
NPR's immigration correspondent Jasmine Garts was at the laundromat in her predominantly Latino neighborhood in New York City.
And this ad came on the wall-mounted TV that's always playing there.
It featured Kristi Noem, the U.S.
Secretary of Homeland Security.
President Trump has a clear message for those that are in our country illegally.
Leave now.
If you don't, we will find you and we will deport you.
You will never return.
This ad caught Jasmine's attention
because she spent a lot of time over the last year talking to immigrants with and without legal status who are scrambling to adjust to this moment.
People who have seen this coming for a while now.
There's one woman in particular who really stuck with her.
Okay,
so about a year ago I was in Florida in Fort Myers and I'm in this trailer park where mostly Latino immigrant agricultural workers live.
And I'm hanging out with this woman.
She's this older church lady.