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Participants recite the Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony for new U.S. citizens in Seattle on July 4, 2025. Under the Trump administration, new applicants for naturalization will have to take a more difficult civics test that the government says is intended to ensure that only immigrants who are "fully assimilated" will become new citizens. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images) David Ryder/Getty Images hide caption
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Folkston is a small rural town not far from the Florida-Georgia line. Known for its scenic swamp and railroad traffic, the area has few major employers and struggles to keep workers from moving to bigger cities like Jacksonville, Fla., just an hour down the road. The jobs created by the Folkston ICE detention facility will bring much-needed jobs, but some locals don't want their town associated with the Trump administration's divisive immigration enforcement practices. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán/NPR hide caption
Hundreds of ICE detainees will soon be held in the small town of Folkston, Ga.
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Federal law enforcement agents outside a metro Denver apartment complex during an immigration raid Feb. 5, 2025 Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite hide caption
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Hundreds marched in downtown Chicago on Oct. 8, protesting President's Trump deployment of National Guard troops and the presence of immigration enforcement agents in the city. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán/NPR hide caption
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A corrections officer walks beside people holding candles, signs, and flowers during a vigil outside the Krome Detention Center in Miami in May 2025, protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody and mass deportations. Giorgio Viera/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building is seen in Portland, Ore. this month. Jenny Kane/AP hide caption
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Law enforcement agents secure an immigration facility in Dallas on Sept. 24, 2025 after a gunman shot at the facility, killing two detainees and injuring a third one. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán/NPR hide caption
In this file photo, Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, R-Fla., speaks during an event on Capitol Hill on May 1, 2024 in Washington, DC. Leigh Vogel/Getty Images hide caption
Stephany Gauffeny talks to NPR on Sept. 27 about her husband Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, a victim of the Sept. 24 shooting at an Dallas ICE facility. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán/NPR hide caption
People arrive at an ICE recruitment job fair at the Utah Valley Convention Center in Provo, Utah, on Sept. 15. George Frey/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Dallas field office is still an active crime scene, according to authorities. But people with mandatory ICE check-ins still showed up to their scheduled appointments, only to be turned away. Sergio Martínez-Beltrán/NPR hide caption
FBI and other law enforcement officials investigate a vehicle parked near the building allegedly used by the gunman who perpetrated a shooting near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas on Wednesday. Aric Becker/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Law enforcement and emergency personnel respond near the scene of a shooting at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday. One detainee was killed and two others were wounded in the shooting. Aric Becker/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javitz Federal Building on Aug. 28. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption
Detainees are seen in a yard at the Folkston ICE Processing Center on Sept. 9, 2025, in Folkston, Georgia. The state's two Democratic senators are demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security after more than a dozen people have died in immigration detention facilities. Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
: An ICE agent monitors hundreds of asylum seekers being processed upon entering the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on June 6, 2023 in New York City. New York City has provided sanctuary to over 46,000 asylum seekers since 2013, when the city passed a law prohibiting city agencies from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement agencies unless there is a warrant for the person's arrest David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/Getty Images hide caption