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What does a 21-year-old do when she wakes up to news that her parents have been deported?
She picks up the pieces. She pays the bills, takes her siblings to school, stays home from college and tries to scrounge up enough money to keep a roof over their heads. The world doesn’t stop, but it looks very different.
Overly ambitious quotas within the Trump administration’s deportation agenda have inevitably separated families along the way. There are millions of Americans who live with someone who’s undocumented. Studies have estimated that in California, 1 in 6 children have at least one undocumented parent.
For those who deal with this loss of a family member, and in some cases sole provider, it’s a heavy grief that accompanies new, unexpected responsibilities, our immigration reporter Lillian Perlmutter reports.
Read about these families, left in the wake of enforcement raids, in our top story today.
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Today’s top story
A year into Trump administration’s arrests, separated families struggle to stay afloat
By Lillian Perlmutter • Times of San Diego
In 2025, over 5,000 people were deported in the San Diego area, leaving countless parents, children torn.
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Today’s opinion column
Opinion: Amid ICE chaos, a reminder of San Diego’s past official violence
An editorial in the Evening Tribune said the union free speech protestors in 1912 “would be much better dead” as police and vigilante violence escalated.
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