It took great courage for her to talk to us. Her story and her experience is a stark glimpse into the life of an undocumented person in America today.

She asked us to call her 'Luz'. She requested that we not publish her real name or show her face. She asked us to alter the pitch of her voice too.

That is the level of fear right now in this country among certain communities.

"I never felt this way before," she told me as we chatted in her small apartment in a suburb of Washington DC . "... the fear I carry with me all the time."

"I'm afraid of leaving the house. I'm afraid of going outside. I'm afraid of being detained. I'm afraid of, you know, just for them to look at me and see me as a Latino woman. Right?

"And being taken. I'm afraid of that."

Image: 'Luz' is living in fear

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