A collage featuring three black-and-white portraits of young men on the left, a central orange-tinted image of ICE officers in police jackets peering into a doorway, and on the right, a close-up of a tattoo on someone’s arm

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“You’re Here Because of Your Tattoos”

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School gymnasium filled with people sitting in folding chairs, some with their arms raised, holding pieces of green paper.

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