This is the first story in a four-part series that examines how President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign is unfolding in the Green Mountain State. The next three stories follow families who are grappling with the fallout .

On a warm afternoon in late September, Will Lambek walked up to an intercom box outside the U.S. Customs and Border Protection station in Richford.

His cell phone had been inundated with calls and texts since Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained nine construction workers during a targeted operation in Hardwick earlier that morning.

Lambek, an organizer with the group Migrant Justice, had come to the CBP station seeking answers about the detainees’ whereabouts.

“I was wondering if maybe they were brought here? Or if you know if they’r

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