Every time she steps outside her home in the New Orleans metro area, a knot forms in her stomach. A mother who has lived in the U.S. since childhood, and now has legal protections to be in the country, says she no longer feels safe in the community she’s called home for decades.

“I feel like we’re always going to be hunted somehow,” she said, her voice breaking throughout the interview as she described what life in the New Orleans area has become.

The woman, who spoke to us on condition of anonymity out of fear she'll be targeted, came to the United States from Brazil when she was about nine years old, brought across the Mexican border by her parents who she says were in search of better opportunities. She grew up here. She went to school here. And earlier this year, she renewed her DAC

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