This story was originally published by Capital B . This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Capital B has chosen to use first names for some sources due to security concerns.

About an hour and a half east of Ghana’s capital city, Gladys Adgy stood outside a stand in Kpone waiting for an order of grilled Tilapia.

Adgy watched the screen of her cracked smartphone. A Telegram chat with a man named Raymond pulsed with messages from the New York City area, where the largest number of Ghanaians live in the U.S.

Raymond had a green card, he kept reminding her over the last 10 months, but since President Donald Trump took office, everything changed.

In America, Raymond, who is from Accra and who left in hopes of supporting his family, has started moving like someone being hunted:

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