By midafternoon, it appeared that the operation — if indeed one had been launched — had not been anywhere near as widespread as many had predicted.

DENVER ‒ School districts representing hundreds of thousands of students nationally have reported attendance drops in the wake of highly publicized ICE raids, with some classrooms seeing as many as two-thirds of students temporarily absent.

Members of the Community Self-Defense Coalition patrol neighborhood streets in an effort to alert people about ICE operations and inform them of their rights.

In Corona, a once-vibrant New York City enclave home to generations of Latino immigrants, the threat of mass deportations has made many residents afraid to go outside.

What appeared to be a series of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the Los Angeles area had some local officials and immigrant-rights activists on edge Friday, again heightening fears of widespread raids anticipated under President Donald Trump’s hard-line stance on illegal immigration.