How Trump’s policies are reshaping Puerto Rico immigration enforcement

Residents have decried the "aggressiveness" of immigration raids in a U.S. territory without permanent detention centers and immigrants are flown across the ocean to the mainland.
In Barrio Obrero, a predominantly Dominican neighborhood in Puerto Rico, the chilling effect of unprecedented immigration raids in the U.S. territory has been paralyzing.
With homes and businesses desolate, a truck with speakers has been cruising through the streets of the working-class neighborhood with a message.
“Suddenly, in that darkness, they heard: ‘Immigrants, you have rights,’” Ariadna Godreau, a human rights lawyer in Puerto Rico, told NBC News.
The legal nonprofit she leads, Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico, hired the truck, known as a “tumba coco,” to make people aware of their rights and announce the launch of a new hotline, the first in Puerto Rico providing legal support to immigrants, Godreau said.
Over 300 families have already called the hotline and spoken with attorneys free of charge as they figure out their legal options in the face of a changing immigration landscape, Godreau said.
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