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New apps help immigrants navigate Trump’s deportation crackdown | With tightening immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected


With tightening immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected.

Faster response to assist detained migrants can be key to intervening before a deportation is finalized, whether by helping someone file an appeal or locating a detainee’s children who have been left alone at home, Escobedo said. It is described on the Google Play store as a tool to make consular services more accessible and bring them “closer to people in situations of migratory vulnerability, strengthening their protection against possible mass deportations and guaranteeing their integrity.” “We are all feeling a little worried [about] providing any kind of resource to the immigrant community,” Esmeralda Ledezma, communications associate at Woori Juntos, a Texas-based Nakasec affiliate that works with Asian migrants, told Rest of World.

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