A young man living at one trailer we visited, who was granted anonymity to protect himself and his job, fit the profile: After a few more years working on a vast maple operation — where he said he often put in 70 hours a week — he said he planned to return to his hometown in Mexico. He said he arrived a few weeks after the April raid, having flown into Rhode Island last year for a seasonal job in Newport. He then relocated first to New Hampshire and then to Vermont, pursuing rumors of work.

Not all immigrants hop the border wall.