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| A daughter hugs her immigrant mother. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images |
September 6, 2018
In mid-April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
carried out a six-day
operation in the New York metropolitan area, detaining a total of 225
people.
One
month later, a young US citizen named Augustina
stood in Manhattan’s Foley Square, a few hundred feet from ICE’s regional
headquarters, and told a crowd of journalists and supporters how the series of
raids — code-named “Operation Keep Safe” — had impacted her and her family. Claiming
they were police, ICE agents “welcomed themselves in” at the family’s East
Harlem apartment, she said, and led away her diabetic mother, who had lived in
the United States for more than 30 years. As the oldest citizen left in the
family, Augustina was now having to file for guardianship of her 12-year-old
sister.
The media had covered the number of immigrants arrested in
the April raid, Augustina noted, but not how it had affected their friends and
relatives. “We’re not just numbers,” she said. “When will our undocumented
families be recognized as human beings?”[…]
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