This is the second story in a four-part series that examines how President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign is unfolding in the Green Mountain State. Read the first story here .

Blanca and Samuel had a rare day off this past August, and they planned to make the most of it.

“We were planning on going out to meet some friends,” Blanca recalled recently, speaking through an interpreter. “We were going to go out for elotes. And so we got ready to go, we walked out of the door, happy and content, and that’s when it happened.”

Samuel was waiting in the car for Blanca when a man with a lanyard and badge approached him. Blanca watched from the apartment door in horror as the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent reached inside the open car window and unlocked the driver’

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