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Annie Rosenthal is the Virginia Spencer Davis fellow at High Country News, reporting on rural communities, agriculture, migration and life in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Email her at annie.rosenthal@hcn.org.
Advocates say people who face less legal risk have an important role to play, from documenting raids to advocating for their neighbors.