Carlos Trujillo couldn’t sleep despite it being well past midnight.
As both an immigrant and an immigration lawyer, Trujillo has been acutely tuned into the volatile nature of the Trump administration’s immigration policies. That night, in the early hours of April 11, as has often been the case lately, Trujillo’s mind drifted to worries about how the changes will impact his clients and what he can do to assist them.
Those thoughts weren’t helped by an email that arrived in his inbox at 1 a.m. The opening line got straight to the point.
“It is time for you to leave the United States,” reads the email from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It ends with a promise: “The federal government will find you.”
Trujillo initially assumed the email was for one of his clients. Then he realized the only name on the email was his own.
“I was in a little bit of a shock,” said Trujillo, who became a citizen over a decade ago. “I was like, why is this happening?”
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