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Immigrant families wait in dread, but no sign of large-scale enforcement raids

The nationwide immigration raids that President Donald Trump said would begin Sunday didn't materialize on the streets of major U.S. cities, even as his statement cast a cloud of fear that kept many families indoors. Immigration enforcement authorities said their plans to track down migrants with deportation orders would continue, but their actions over the weekend appeared more akin to routine actions rather than the mass roundups the president promised.

Immigrants and advocates had been bracing for the arrests, which Trump last warned of on Friday, saying he wanted agents "to take people out and take them back to their countries.