Immigration
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Maricela Rosales Castillo
Mother of three. No criminal record. Nearly 30 years in the U.S. Nabbed on her way to the grocery to buy ingredients for a stew she planned to cook for…
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George and Esmerelda Doilez
They voted for Donald Trump twice. A traffic stop on the way to the dentist’s led them to reassess.
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Rodney Taylor
A double amputee and “a fixture” in his Georgia community, facing deportation to a country he can’t remember.
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Paola and Adrian Clouatre
Married to a Marine Corps Vet. No criminal record. On the path to citizenship. Two small children, one still breast-feeding. Detained by ICE.
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David Black
He was praying for them when they opened fire on him.
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Kapil Raghu
A bottle of “Opium” perfume landed him in an ICE detention center.
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Leonardo Garcia Venegas
They told him his ID was “fake” and detained him in handcuffs for more than an hour before confirming his Social Security number and letting him go.
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Ayman Soliman
“I didn’t come to America seeking a better life. I was escaping death.”
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Arthur Berto
A 13-year-old is seized by ICE and sent to a detention center more than 500 miles from his home and his mother.
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George Retes
U.S. citizen, Iraq War veteran, father of two. Tear-gassed, pepper-sprayed, and held for three days with no access to a lawyer or a phone call to his family.
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Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios
In the wrong place at the wrong time, delivering strawberries near the scene of a Border Patrol action and a governor’s press conference.
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John Painter
Immigration authorities should focus on “the troublemakers,” not on people who are “working and paying their taxes… All of us, if we look back in history, including the president, we…
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Donna Hughes-Brown and James Brown
Two months in ICE detention after 47 years in the U.S. “It’s just crazy that this is even allowed in this country… It shouldn’t be even thought that this should…
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Allison Bustillo-Chinchilla
Arrested by fluke, she self-deported after six harrowing months in a privately-run immigrant detention center.
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Vincent Scardina
He thought he had done everything right. His roofing-company employees had valid work permits, pending asylum claims, and clean records since their arrival in the U.S.
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Andry Hernández Romero
Fleeing anti-gay prejudice in Venezuela, he applied for asylum in the U.S. Before he could plead his case, the Trump administration shipped him to El Salvador and into a prison…
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Carol Hui
When ICE moved to deport her to Hong Kong, the town of Kennet, Missouri, responded with a loud cry of “Bring Carol Home!”
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Moises Sotelo
The Oregon Wine Board gave him its annual Vineyard Excellence Award in 2020. Five years later, he was deported to Mexico.
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Valentina Galvis
The price of a Colombian immigrant’s quest for political asylum: five days imprisoned in an O’Hare Airport hotel room with her infant son – and no way to tell anybody.
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Elizabeth Rodriguez
After 25 years in the U.S., raising a family and working a steady job at a meat-packing plant, she was locked up and threatened with deportation.
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Camila Muñoz
Married to an American and on track to U.S. citizenship, she was returning from a honeymoon trip to Puerto Rico when she got arrested and put in a detention camp.…
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