With Donald Trump’s election, fear is running rampant through communities of undocumented immigrants across the High Plains.
“I think terrified would be the right word,” one Colorado Springs immigration attorneytold The Gazette.
During his campaign, Trump vowed to forcibly remove the millions of people in the country illegally.
But one Colorado immigration rights spokesman said it wasn’t just Trump that immigrants fear. “We're more afraid of the actual community that supported those beliefs, more than the president,” said Oscar Juarez-Luna.
Meanwhile in Kansas, Trump’s hiring of immigration hardliner Secretary of State Kris Kobach has caused worry among immigrants in the Sunflower State.
And in Texas, undocument immigrants who came to the U.S. as kids are in a state of shock and panic,according to The Texas Tribune.