Article snippet: All month long, the Globe has been releasing its Back to the Battleground series examining what has changed for four crucial states since the 2016 election. Deputy D.C. Bureau Chief Liz Goodwin kicked off the project with a dispatch from Madison Heights, Mich., where she followed several families in the Chaldean Christian community — some of whom had supported Donald Trump in 2016 — who were caught up in the president’s ICE raids. Here, she discusses her reporting process and what she hopes readers will learn from the series. here. You profiled families in Michigan’s Iraqi Christian community. How did you approach the work of identifying the subjects of the story? One of our guiding principles with this project was not to go into these states with a preconceived notion about the kinds of voters or stories we were looking for. We wanted to be directed by people living in these states. So I was turned onto the idea of the Iraqi Christians by asking people in the Detroit area about what story in the region was undertold or surprising. Once I decided on them as my focus, a really smart local Chaldean lawyer pointed me toward Crystal Kassab Jabiro, a middle school teacher who voted for Trump in 2016 and then was horrified by the ICE raids on Chaldeans and threw herself into volunteering to help them. I found Ashourina Slewo, the subject who is fighting her father’s deportation, through Facebook. Multiple Chaldeans also pointed me to the best-known community leader... Link to the full article to read more