Editor’s note: This story was most recently updated by NPR on March 28, 2025.

A sense of anxiety is gripping many noncitizen residents of the United States.

The second Trump administration kicked off with a shock-and-awe effort aimed at arresting and deporting many immigrants without legal status. But across the country, stories are now emerging of both longtime legal permanent residents and visa holders being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other immigration officers.

This week, Rumeysa Öztürk, a 30-year-old Turkish graduate student at Tufts University, was surrounded on the street by plainclothes immigration agents with covered faces and then detained. A nearby resident whose security camera captured the arrest said, “It looked like a kidnapping,” The Associa

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