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Donald Trump won the presidency in part on promises to deport immigrants who have criminal records and lack legal status. But his earliest executive orders—trying to undo birthright citizenship, suspending critical refugee programs—made clear he wants to attack immigrants with legal status too. In our series Who Gets to Be American This Week? , we’ll track the Trump administration’s attempts to exclude an ever-growing number of people from the American experiment.

Seven years ago, the world listened in horror to the distraught cries of children in a Customs and Border Protection facility begging to be reunited with their parents. The audio, published by P

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