Jiah Choe is a fourth-year undergraduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a reporter at Medill News Service, where she covers immigration.

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‘Our Teacher Showed Us What We Would Do If ICE Agents Came’

by Jiah Choe, by Norah D’Cruze 04-14-2025

The badge of ICE Field Office Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, David Marin and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Fugitive Operations team search for a Mexican national at a home in Hawthorne, Calif., March 1, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
 

Sara arrived in the United States as a 7-year-old refugee when her family fled religious persecution in Bangladesh. Eleven years later, Sara now calls Montgomery County, Md., home. But if the Trump administration has its way, she would be immediately deported because of her undocumented status.