There's a certain beauty in the notes not played. An entire symphony, if you're listening.

The cars not backfiring. The sirens not wailing. The fireworks not erupting in sonic booms that bounce off hills and peal across valleys.

This is the consequence of the largest planned deportation in American history. The Trump administration’s goal is to make life as unnavigable, unstable and uncomfortable as possible for people in the country illegally . The administration’s hope is they leave on their own, or with their kids in tow.

“Self-deportation is a dignified way to leave the U.S.,” the Department of Homeland Security said in May as part of a pitch encouraging people to leave the country on their own.

What remains are places that used to be: a shuttered restaurant, empty benches on w

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