heightened

“We’re entering a time when the pie is not going to enlarge as rapidly … a time when there is going to be heightened group conflict.”

The process has taken on heightened importance as California has shifted to predominantly conducting elections by mail.

Nana Gyamfi, executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, who is based in L.A., said she particularly worries that Black immigrants will face heightened racism because the Trump campaign stoked lies that Haitian immigrants were eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

The incident took place despite heightened security in the city, which is also hosting a major civil and military airshow.

The requests have assumed heightened urgency as the administration nears its end.