Latinos in Baltimore are living in fear: ‘I can be stopped just because of my accent’

Update: 2025-07-29

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As the Trump administration ramps up its violent immigration raids around the country, increasingly targeting immigrants with no criminal record, and racially profiling Latinos to meet arrest quotas, immigrant communities in Baltimore and beyond are living in terror. In this urgent episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with two immigrant justice organizers in Baltimore—whose identities are being protected to ensure their safety—about the horrifying reality that immigrant families, particularly Latino families, are experiencing right now. “If you don't look Latino, do you tell your child to carry around their passport or their birth certificate?... US citizens are being detained only because they look Latino, because they are Latino.”

Additional resources:

Maanvi Singh, Will Craft, & Andrew Witherspoon, The Guardian, “How Trump has supercharged the immigration crackdown - in data”
Jaisal Noor, Baltimore Beat, “Baltimore residents are mobilizing to protect their immigrant neighbors from ICE”
Tara Lynch, CBS Baltimore, “Community demands release of Maryland pastor who was arrested by ICE”

Credits:

Producer: Rosette Sewali
Studio Production: David Hebden
Audio Post-Production: Stephen Frank

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Latinos in Baltimore are living in fear: ‘I can be stopped just because of my accent’

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Latinos in Baltimore are living in fear: ‘I can be stopped just because of my accent’