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“Who should I fear?” In South Texas, two bakers look like Trump's immigration anger.

Most morning, Leonardo Baez, father of seven years, wakes up hours before sunrise to mix Brotteig in the border town of Los Fresnos, Texas. The punishment and tedious work, yes, but to have a beloved bakery was a lifelong dream of him, he said.

It is now in danger.

In February, federal agents fell into his shop, Abby's bakery, the workers they said, illegally in the country and received charges against the owners, Mr. Baez and his wife Nora Alicia Avila.

In the July trial, many in this community of the Latino majority of 8,500 near Brownsville approach how life under President Trump and his immigration re-meeting will look like. More than 52 percent of the once British Cameron County from Los Fresnos voted for Mr. Trump in November, but his aggressive politics split families and rattles the local business, in which the residents of no papers cannot be distinguished from the larger border population.

If he has found the most severe charges guilty of transporting and having migrants, both Mr. Baez (56) and Ms. Avila (46), a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

The Ministry of Justice framed the case as an open-and-shut: law enforcement officers found a room on the shopping place, which includes the bakery with six mattresses on the Floor Housing employees who are not authorized to work in the country. According to the government, the raid found two migrants “illegally present in the United States” and six Visa owners, “who did not have labor law”.

The Baez family agreed to discuss their lives, but they would not talk about the case on the proposal of their lawyers. But one of these lawyers, Jaime Diez, spoke about the case and said that the affair of the federal government was a break from the way “fees” are usually used.

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