Since Donald Trump became president, many minority groups, including Indigenous Americans, transgender people, and immigrants, are afraid for their future.
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00:00Martin is afraid Native Americans are going to be stripped off their basic means of earning a living.
00:11Carolina Palma is worried that as a Venezuelan she'll be deported.
00:16Lane and Aurora fear losing their rights as trans people.
00:21There are only two genders, male and female.
00:25Minorities in the United States are anxious about the future since Donald Trump has taken office.
00:31Those who are not of the white majority live in a state of uncertainty.
00:46A protest dance against the threat of being wiped out.
00:50The Chippewa Cree tribe lives in fear of becoming even more marginalized than they already are.
01:04More than a century ago, the Chippewa Cree were forcibly resettled on the Rocky Boy Reservation located in northern Montana, close to the Canadian border.
01:14All in all, the tribe has around 6,000 members. More precise figures aren't available.
01:23We meet young Chippewa Cree at the reservation's community center.
01:27We want to know how the situation in President Trump's America is reaching a crisis point for them.
01:32Being a native today in the United States of America, especially as an indigenous woman, is sometimes scary.
01:42Going out alone, you can't do that.
01:44There's been a lot of deporting happening ever since the new presidency.
01:49A lot of Native Americans get, like, kind of targeted because some of us kind of look like we're not from here.
01:59And, I don't know, some of my family from down south, from the Navajo Nation.
02:04They would get, what's the word, asked a lot by any, like, law enforcement saying, like, do you have, like, proof that you're from the United States.
02:18So, when that came about, our tribal chairman, he also put out a notice for all of the tribal members to carry their ID.
02:27And, I didn't think that it was that serious.
02:30And, it wasn't too soon, like, after that, there was Border Patrol coming onto our reservation.
02:37After that, me and my family, we took precautions.
02:40And, I even have a passport now, too, so.
02:43It was still, like, really scary to leave the res, honestly.
02:48I felt really scared to leave because we don't have as much protection under Native Americans as we do here on the reservation.
02:57It's just sad to see that and to be scared to go out into a world that we should call our own.
03:04The houses are thinly spread across the 44,000 hectare reservation.
03:14There isn't a real center.
03:16The next city, Havre, is off the reservation, about 50 kilometers away.
03:20The only work available is there, and they're mostly poorly paid service jobs.
03:25Martin Wade Watson has a slightly better paying job.
03:33He's supervising construction of a regional water treatment plant,
03:37which will meet a vital need for the reservation.
03:40The place is located in the middle of Dry Prairie.
03:44Access to clean, fresh water is very limited.
03:47Martin is supervising the project.
03:56It's financed completely by federal funds that Donald Trump is threatening to cut.
04:04We're pretty much in dire need of it because when drought season comes,
04:09we have to really watch our water, maintain our water system.
04:13We can't leave faucets running.
04:15The water we have on the res ain't nothing like that water out there.
04:23Every president was on board that got elected.
04:28They never did shoot this project down.
04:31But if the funding is cut, the tribe won't only lose access to clean water,
04:36but also an important source of jobs.
04:41On our pipeline cruise is 100% Native American.
04:46This kind of project was vital for us.
04:51Native Americans have one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.
04:5660% of the Chippewa Cree of working age are jobless.
05:00We get looked past a lot.
05:03I've seen it with my own eyes.
05:06People qualified to do the job and others picked in front of them
05:12that ain't qualified to do the job.
05:14And that's probably a big reason why,
05:17is who we are and how we've been looked at for generations.
05:26In these uncertain times, the Chippewa Cree are seeking stability in their history
05:32and by trying to reconcile their traditions with the present.
05:36For Martin, that means taking part in rodeos, riding horses and roping cattle.
05:41My grandpa done it, my dad done it.
05:47I'd say I'm a cowboy.
05:49I swing a rope, I ride a horse, I wear a cowboy hat, I enter rodeos.
05:56I'd say I'm a cowboy.
06:00Just as they have for thousands of years, the next generation comes along
06:05and is ready to carry on with the tradition.
06:07Our next stop is Doral.
06:13Here too, fear of Trump's policies is ever present.
06:16Doral is down in the south of Florida, near Miami.
06:20The town has 75,000 residents with three of four of them speaking Spanish at home.
06:26Nearly every second person has fled from Venezuela.
06:32Many are not officially registered and they've been frightened
06:35since President Trump threatened to deport masses of people who don't have papers.
06:40Carolina Palma hears lots of stories in her small shop.
06:45There is a lot of nervousness in our community,
06:48since our business is aimed purely at the Venezuelan population
06:51and many are beneficiaries of these migratory reliefs.
06:55And yes, it affects us negatively.
06:57You can be anxious, you can feel fear
07:00and a lot of it is because there's an overload of information.
07:07Carolina Palma is living in the US legally,
07:10but she's afraid for her undocumented compatriots.
07:17Uncertainty, we feel that.
07:20There is injustice, starting with our country, with our rulers
07:24and secondly the places where we arrive and where we take refuge.
07:32This uncertainty is ever-present.
07:36If people are forced to go back to Venezuela, they're not safe at all.
07:41They've already lost everything.
07:42So going back and trying to make a life there is complicated.
07:48Venezuelans fleeing persecution by the Maduro regime could rely on a temporary protected status,
07:56the TPS up to now, but Trump's reshaping of US immigration policy has led many to fear deportation.
08:03There are less people walking around, there's less traffic and the shops are empty.
08:16I work with a lot of Venezuelans and they are really frightened about the situation.
08:22They are currently conducting raids in the companies actually.
08:27And you can really feel the fear. It's spreading.
08:33Washington, DC. The next stop is where the president's power is based.
08:39People have gathered in the capital on International Transgender Day of Visibility
08:43to protest President Trump's two-gender policy.
08:48The uncertainty of what's happening right now is what's really troubling.
08:53I worry for kids who now have more access to resources than I have when I was young,
09:01but are facing louder backlash.
09:04Generally speaking, the way that all the politics are going,
09:07I think there's a growing fear across many people.
09:11Aurora is visiting her girlfriend in her apartment.
09:15Both only want to be called by their first names.
09:20I've kind of known that I was trans for a good while.
09:24I think I first remember, you know, having the words to call myself trans when I was like 15-ish.
09:30For a long time, I just repressed myself and avoided it and went through cycles of hating myself
09:40and, you know, figuring out who I was and then erasing it all away.
09:45I quietly, without telling anyone in my life, started hormones.
09:50I didn't really want to hide anymore.
09:52And it hurt every time that I had to talk to my mom on the phone
09:55because it felt like I was lying to her about everything.
10:01It would bring me to tears, like, every time I talked to my mom.
10:05If I was a teenager nowadays, seeing the entire world trying to persecute you
10:11because they're leaning into the dogma that the alt-right is starting to spread in different pockets of the world,
10:17I would be very scared and very afraid because I was afraid whenever there were protections
10:25for trans people.
10:27I have grown adults coming to me that I'm friends with that are in their mid-30s
10:32who are terrified of starting hormones, scared that if they start hormones
10:37that they won't be able to continue them after they started,
10:42that they'll go down this route of, like, finally accepting themselves,
10:46going down this route of being trans and accepting oneself in its entirety,
10:51telling other people, telling your work, only to end up not being able to get hormones.
10:56What would happen if you didn't have access to hormones anymore?
10:59I mean, the thought of having testosterone in my body is terrifying, right?
11:05I went through so many years always thinking about it
11:09and always just, like, obsessing over the thought of testosterone in my blood.
11:14And finally when I was able to start testosterone blockers and eventually estrogen.
11:21I mean, it was a moment in which I saw colour for the first time in my life.
11:26I actually feel emotions rather than just repressing them.
11:29And the thought of going back would be hellish.
11:33But why is Donald Trump so focused on trans people?
11:36There's really not a lot of, you know, pushback if you go after a group that makes up, you know,
11:45what, less than a percent, around a percent of the American population.
11:49And so it makes it an easy scapegoat for politicians to rile people up on.
11:55We try not to let that fear control us, though.
11:58And I'm not going to let the fear control me, right?
12:00I'm going to understand that my fear is valid, but I'm also not going to let it change how I present and how I react to things.
12:12Aurora and Lane say giving up isn't an option in Donald Trump's regime of fear.
12:17They will continue to fight together for their place in the U.S.
12:21All of you, like, it's a very picnic-y, it's beautiful, it's amazing, but I want you all to make some noise, I want you to be visible.
12:29Please don't stand up.
12:31If we...