GREENVILLE — You might not notice until they’re gone.

They help to build houses, run hotels and care for children and elderly relatives. And now many are quietly disappearing.

Some are being deported. Others are too scared to show up to work.

In 2024, President Donald Trump promised the largest mass deportation effort in U.S. history for more than 10 million unauthorized migrants living and working in the U.S. Since then, border crossings have nosedived, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests have doubled, and the number of people in detention is at record highs, according to federal data.

Most recently on Sept. 5, immigration authorities announced they detained 475 people — most of them South Korean nationals — in a record-breaking raid at a manufacturing site outside Savannah,

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