MACON, Ga. — A Macon woman is facing potential deportation after being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in March.

Alma Bowman, 58, remains in custody at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA, but her family argues she is a U.S. citizen.

While she was born in the Philippines, her father Lawrence Bowman was an American Navy Veteran. Her family moved to the U.S. when she was 10, and she’s lived in Macon for nearly half a century.

Bowman is a Jones County High School alum, along with her children, John and Chris.

"She's lived all of her adult life here," John said. "She worked at the Kmart before it closed down. She was a bartender in Macon for a good while, and all of her life, she has been in America and has an American father."

But proving she is a U.S. citi

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