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The price of a Colombian immigrant’s quest for political asylum: five days imprisoned in an O’Hare Airport hotel room with her infant son – and no way to tell anybody.

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Getting laid off is a career setback for most people. It can be a life-wrecker for others.

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U.S. citizen, Iraq War veteran, father of two. Tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, and held for three days with no access to a lawyer or a phone call to his family.

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When Elen Musk fed USAID into the “wood chipper,” Jennifer Nielsen lost a job she loved. Many people will pay a steeper price, Nielsen says.

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After 25 years in the U.S., raising a family and working a steady job at a meat-packing plant, she was locked up and threatened with deportation.

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When Elen Musk fed USAID into the “wood chipper,” Jennifer Nielsen lost a job she loved. Many people will pay a steeper price, Nielsen says.

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He became Georgia’s poster boy for the Medicaid reforms the Trump administration hopes to make across he country. It didn’t work out well for him.

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This Trump supporter can’t figure why the administration would cancel in-person classes at the National Fire Academy.

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“I was heartbroken… it was something I was planning on potentially making a lifelong career.”

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She lost her job as a middle school history teacher for posting an “Everyone is welcome here” sign in her classroom.

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Returning from a honeymoon in Puerto Rico, the bride (who had entered the country legally and was on track to U.S. citizenship) got arrested and shipped to a detention center in Louisiana. The groom voted for Trump.

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“The case advocates are averaging over 120 cases per person, and you’re letting everybody go. How does that help the taxpayer?”

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She gave pre-natal advice and support for low-income women. “I thought our work was bipartisan,” Kane said after being fired.

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An expert at finding domestic sources of rare-earth metals. Fired by an Administration promising to make the U.S. less dependent on imports.

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She helped residents of New Jersey and New York find affordable homes and avoid eviction.

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A family farmer counting on a USDA program to help pay for a solar-energy project. Her funding has been frozen.

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He worries about losing his cattle farm because of cuts to a program that promised to help him upgrade his water lines, wells and fencing. “I’ve already done a bunch of the work, already paid for the material and the labor, so I’m out all that cost.”

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She welcomed veterans at a mental health clinic. Now there’s a sign telling vets to call their therapist if the door is locked.

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His job – enforcing safety rules for e-cigarettes and vapes – was funded out of tobacco-industry fees. He got fired anyway.

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He worked at a VA hospital keeping track of critical supplies. He got fired along with nearly half of his shift-mates.

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After ten years in the Marine Corps,, with deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, Lennox found work at a VA hospital where he bonded with older vets and checked invoices for fraud and waste. Two months later, Lennox got a form email telling him, falsely, that he was being fired for poor performance.

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What didn’t happen? Trump’s promise to make IVF free. What did? Cooper lost her job and her health insurance.

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Fired along with nearly 900 employees of NOAA. Their offense: being part of the “Climate change alarm industry.”

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When ICE moved to deport her to Hong Kong, the town of Kennet, Missouri, responded with a loud cry of "Bring Carol Home!"

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One potential casualty of Trump budget cuts: help for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking in the State of Maine.

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The administration tapped him to serve as Acting Director of the FBI. Then it booted him out of the bureau.

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The Oregon Wine Board gave him its annual Vineyard Excellence Award in 2020. Five years later, he was deported to Mexico.

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Jennifer Piggott

Last year she flew a Trump flag on her lawn. This year, probably not.

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They left South Dakota after it passed a bathroom bill.

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Vincent Scardina

He thought he had done everything right. His roofing-company employees had valid work permits, pending asylum claims, and clean records since their arrival in the U.S.

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When Elon Musk fed USAID into the "wood chipper," Jennifer Nielsen lost a job she loved. Others, she says, will lose their lives. A vast number of others.

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Fleeing anti-gay prejudice in Venezuela, he applied for asylum in the U.S. Before he could plead his case, the Trump administration shipped him to El Salvador and into a prison described by its warden as a “cemetery for the living dead.”

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Arrested by fluke, she self-deported after six harrowing months in a privately-run immigrant detention center.

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“I want somebody to have the guts and the fortitude to stand up and say, ‘You know what? This is wrong.’ It’s just crazy that this is even allowed in this country… It shouldn’t be even thought that this should be OK.”

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He was in the wrong place at the wrong time, delivering strawberries near the scene of a Border Patrol action and a political press conference.

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North Carolina’s Small Farmer of the Year says he “never thought I was going to lose this much money this fast.”

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The administration tries to halt a wind power project that is 80% finished. “We’re not going to sit down and take this lightly. We’re going to fight you at every step of the way.”

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“I’m suing because it’s not right what they did to me. I don’t want it to happen to anyone else.”

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“I didn’t come to America seeking a better life. I was escaping death.”

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A 13-year-old is seized by ICE and sent to a detention center more than 500 miles from his home and his mother.

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Donald Trump meeded a sword. Todd Arrington lost his job.

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Donald Trump needed a sword. Todd Arrington lost his job.

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Social Security says it is she who owes the system money, not the other way around. But no one has been able to tell her why, and “My rent is due,” she says. “My medication doesn’t wait.”

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Kentucky is expected to lose nearly $11 billion in Medicaid funding over the next decade. That’s bad news for rural hospitals and the people who depend on them.

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In the wrong place at the wrong time, delivering strawberries near the scene of a Border Patrol action and a governor’s press conference.

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A Louisiana fisherman’s perspective on Trump’s presidency: “I was all for Trump. I thought the economy would flourish more. I thought that prices would go down on our fuel and groceries and building materials.”

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SNAP recipients are “totally normal families,. It’s not something I feel shame over, in the same way that I’m sure people in other countries don’t feel shame over having healthcare.”

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A double amputee and “a fixture in his community,” threatened with deportation to a country he can't remember.

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Married to a Marine Corps Vet. No criminal record. On the path to citizenship. Two small children, one still breast-feeding. Detained by ICE.

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He was praying for them when they opened fire on him.

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A bottle of “Opium” perfume lands him in an ICE detention center.

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With their health insurance premiums set to jump from $800 to $2,000, a Florida couple finds themselves in a tight spot. They’ve got plenty of company.