“I feel like I am an American,” Daniela Vargas said.
By Dana Liebelson and Elise Foley, Huffington Post
March 1, 2017
WASHINGTON ― Federal immigration authorities arrested a
22-year-old woman in Jackson,
Mississippi, on Wednesday shortly after she spoke
to the media about the detention of her family. Law enforcement had initially
declined to arrest Daniela Vargas, who was previously granted deportation
reprieve under the Obama administration’s deferred action program.
On Feb. 15, Vargas was half-asleep at home when Immigration
and Custom Enforcement agents came for her family. Her father, a house painter,
kissed her goodbye on his way to work and was apprehended in the driveway,
Vargas told The Huffington Post last week. She says she never saw her brother,
a construction worker who was also detained.
Vargas’ family came to the U.S. from Argentina over 15 years
ago. She’d previously had protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals program. The program now has an uncertain future under President
Donald Trump.[…]
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1 comment:
ICE now threatening to deport Daniela Vargas without a hearing.
You can sign a petition demanding her release.
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