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Hundreds of Afghan refugees have settled in Vermont in recent years. Now, one of those families wants to make the state feel more like home by buying a house. And they’re taking advantage of a new partnership intended to make that dream more achievable.

Immediately after being inaugurated, President Trump signed a slew of executive orders focused on immigration enforcement.

Steven Tendo lives in Colchester and wants asylum after experiencing “numerous arrests and torture� in his home country of Uganda. While his request for asylum was denied in 2019, he is currently suing the U.S. government over allegations of mistreatment while in detention. The government denies those allegations.

The Democratic attorneys general and immigrant rights advocates say the question of birthright citizenship is settled law and that while presidents have broad authority, they are not kings.

Obama-era rules, which Trump kept in place during his first administration, currently prevent Immigration and Customs Enforcement from making arrests at so-called “sensitive locations,� including schools, churches and hospitals. But Trump reportedly wants to rescind that policy.

In Vermont, many dairy farmers don’t seem immediately concerned about losing their workforce. But farmworker organizers say they’re worried about increased immigration enforcement worsening poor conditions on farms.

En Vermont, muchos productores lecheros no parecen estar inmediatamente preocupados de perder a su fuerza laboral. Pero los organizadores de los trabajadores agrícolas dicen que están preocupados sobre el aumento de la aplicación de leyes migratorias que empeoran las malas condiciones en las granjas.

The principal of North Country Union High School in Newport said the district has a longstanding policy of requiring outside law enforcement to produce a warrant if they want access to students.

In response to the president-elect’s stated plans, the Vermont Language Justice Project has released videos in six languages outlining what law enforcement and immigration authorities are and are not allowed to do under the law.

In this episode of "What class are you?" Tankhun Thongjunthoug talks about what it was like to grow up in an immigrant family, and how he experienced the undercurrents of the American class system.