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Nearly 4,300 new deportation proceedings are expected to be filed in Missouri in fiscal 2018. That’s up more than 1,300 from last year and about 1,600 the year before that, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, at Syracuse University.
The stepped-up pace is part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. Mendez is one of several undocumented immigrants who’ve lived here for years but only recently been picked up and targeted for removal by immigration agents.
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