Shortly after President Donald Trump returned to office in 2025, an immigrant family disappeared from a neighborhood in Covington, Kentucky. A few months later, while freelancing for a regional newspaper, I interviewed Clara Riley, a woman who lived on the street. As she described changes in her neighborhood over the past 60 years, Riley mentioned the family — and how her immigrant neighbors were responding to the administration’s immigration crackdown. The family’s disappearance hit close to home for Riley. She had become fond of Angel, one of the children. “I worked at the school and one of the kids, he grew up in my school,” Riley said. “I didn’t see him anymore. And after that, the house was empty.” Riley asked around and learned that a neighbor had seen a black van with tinted windows park in front of the house and take all of its occupants away. The administration’s immigration enforcement actions are shaking up neighborhoods and cities, changing the ways people shop and socialize.…