Immigration scams surged as Trump’s sweeps lured desperate people to eager defrauders

By: Naisha Roy, Francesca D'Annunzio, J. David McSwane, ProPublica

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: May 5, 2026

Words: 2,436

Last Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago

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As an asylum-seeker living in the U.S., Jasmir Urbina worried as she watched violence break out amid the military-style immigration sweeps across the country. Then she read about legal residents being arrested at immigration court and wondered when federal agents would set their sights on her city.

Urbina had fled Nicaragua in 2022 and legally resided with her husband, a fellow asylum-seeker, in New Orleans while …

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