New York's undocumented workers fear deportation amid Trump crackdown

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New York's undocumented workers fear deportation amid Trump crackdown  Undocumented workers in New York City say they fear deportation from the United States as President Donald Trump has vowed to carry out the largest deportation program in the country's history. "We are always with that fear on our minds," says Victor, an undocumented construction worker in New York City.  AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #worldnews  #imigrants

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00:00This is just in case, just in case, oh, that was the photo.

00:20Hey, take a picture of him.

00:22Make him take a picture of you.

00:30Since January 20th, we've seen less people participating in our programming

00:36and more people feeling afraid to leave the shelters and to come,

00:40and to leave the shelters at all, but to come up on the train and come into church

00:46because of the executive action that said that immigration enforcement could happen

00:52in all locations, including churches and schools and hospitals,

00:55when historically they had respected those spaces

00:58and people have felt an additional level of security being at school or in the hospital or at church.

01:05And what that's looked like now is that we've put additional signage out on the doors

01:09that make clear that ICE and law enforcement and DHS, however they come to the building,

01:15cannot come in without a judicial warrant, which is the law, and that hasn't changed.

01:21The repeal of the sensitive spaces memo really was just a way to make people afraid

01:27because they cannot come into our private spaces without a judicial warrant,

01:32without a warrant signed by a judge, not just a memo from ICE.

01:57For more UN videos visit www.un.org

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