When Katia Calix sees the mass deportations unfolding across the U.S., she thinks of her mother and father. Immigrants from Honduras, they lived for years with temporary protected status, one of the immigration pathways U.S. President Donald Trump is now trying to curtail.
“It breaks my heart,” the 23-year-old nurse said of raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. “If this had happened a few years ago before they got permanent residency, that could have been my parents.”
Added her friend Adriana Yanez, a 27-year-old server: “It’s terrifying to think people have to go out to work without knowing if they’re going to make it home. Our kids are growing up in this.”
On Saturday, Ms. Calix and Ms. Yanez were among the hundreds of thousands who filled Pennsylvania Avenue in Wash