Immigrants working legally in the Texas Panhandle live in limbo amid Trump's crackdowns

Описание: (30 Apr 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Panhandle, Texas - 14 April 2025
1. Mid shot of a Kevenson Jean mowing his yard
2. Close up of lawn mower moving on the grass
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevenson Jean, Haitian migrant:
“I came here in the U.S. In 2023 after President Biden started the humanitarian parole for Haitians."
4. Close up of Jean pushing the lawn mower
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevenson Jean, Haitian migrant:
"I ended up in Panhandle here because of my sponsor. When she applied for us, she lives here, so this is the place that we knew we will come.”
6. Wide shot of flags waving in the breeze and Jean mowing lawn
7. Mid of Jean mowing lawn
8. Wide shot of a water tower with the text “City of Panhandle”
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Kim Snelgrooes, Kevenson and Sherlie’s sponsor:
“We applied for that program in January of 2023 quickly after President Biden announced, and then it was approved in June. And he arrived on July 3rd, 2023, which may be simply the best day to arrive in America -- the day before Independence Day.
10. Mid shot of a Snelgrooes family and Jean family dining together
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kim Snelgrooes, Kevenson and Sherlie’s sponsor:
"So it was a really fun day to have them here on their first full day, welcoming them and just showing them what the American dream is.”
12. Close up of a bowl of tater tots and sweet potato fries
13. Mid shot of families enjoying a meal together
14. Wide shot of families enjoying a meal together
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevenson Jean, Haitian migrant:
“I was hoping I could go to the university but it requires a lot of sacrifices and a lot of steps. So I ended up going to trucking school. Now I am a truck driver.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Panhandle, Texas - 15 April 2025
16. Close up of Jean packing clothes into a suitcase
17. Mid shot of Jean packing a suitcase
18. Mid shot of Jean walking away from his truck
19. Mid shot of Jean climbing into the cab with a suitcase
20. Mid shot of Jean inspecting the engine
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevenson Jean, Haitian migrant
“It’s really sad to leave my truck because I like my truck, I really do. But it’s gonna be my last week because they told me to return my truck as my work permit it's gonna be... not expired but revoked."
22. Mid shot of Jean inspecting the front of the truck
23. Mid shot of Jean sitting behind the wheels
24. Close up of dandelions swaying in the breeze near parked truck

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Panhandle, Texas - 14 April 2025
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Sherlie Jean, Haitian migrant:
“You have applied for it, you pay a fee for it and now they change it, it's like it's not stable. You don’t understand what’s going on.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Panhandle, Texas - 15 April 2025
26. Close up of Sherlie Jean looking into her phone
27. Close of Sherlie Jean's phone with photos
28. Mid shot of Sherlie Jean in her kitchen looking at her phone
29. Wide shot of Jean sitting at a kitchen table

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Panhandle, Texas - 14 April 2025
30. Close up of Kevenson Jean taking documents from a bag
31. Close up of immigration documents on a table
32. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevenson Jean, Haitian migrant:
"For those who are not criminal, for those who come here with a specific dream, I'm asking the White House to have mercy for me, for those people."
33. Various of Jean standing inside a house with immigration documents on his hands and typing on his phone
STORYLINE:
Trucking seemed to be the key to the American dream for a Haitian immigrant named Kevenson Jean.








Days later, Kevenson got word that he could keep his job.


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