New apps help immigrants navigate Trump’s deportation crackdown

With tightening immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected.
  • A spike in immigration raids has spread fear across migrant communities in the U.S.
  • A slew of new apps aimed at providing migrants support have emerged in recent years.
  • Afraid of government persecution, some of the apps have gone offline or scaled back operations.

On a weekday morning in May, the Hack Latino app issued an alert to its users: There were five Immigration and Customs Enforcement patrol vehicles on a certain avenue in Grand Island, Nebraska. “Watch out!” the message urged in Spanish.

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