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This spring, not long after the second inauguration of Donald Trump, Irina Khorinas saw her hopes for a new life in the United States collapse.

Two years earlier, she and her teenage daughter, Viktoria, had fled the war in Ukraine. They landed in New York, determined to begin again. Irina found a job in sales at a local department store in Long Island, while Viktoria enrolled at Farmingdale State College.

“After a year of hearing missiles and drones in the sky, we had finally reached a safer environment,” Irina says.

That sense of safety has vanished.

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