By Margaret Hartmann | New York Magazine
Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos inside an ICE van. Photo: Rob Schumacher/AP
The detention of an Arizona mother who left Mexico and entered the U.S. illegally when she was 14 is drawing attention to an element of President Trump’s executive order on immigration and border security that was overshadowed by discussion of the border wall.
Seven people were arrested on Wednesday night in Phoenix, Arizona, at a protest to stop the deportation of Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos. The 36-year-old mother of two American teenagers was taken into custody during one of her regular check-ins with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
