Life as an Undocumented Immigrant

Immigrants react to legal threats and hostile reception by going underground: They hold negative perceptions of local law enforcement, associate routine activities such as driving and walking with anxiety and the risk of deportation, and develop strategies of avoidance and fitting in to mitigate the discovery of their unauthorized status.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/03/life_as_undocumented.html