Imagine one of your neighbors, a person you would consider a friend, goes to their scheduled check-in at their appointed federal immigration court. They’ve done everything by the book: they immigrated to this country as a refugee, have held steady employment and have been an upstanding member of our community. On the way out of their appointment, they get taken by ICE with no explanation or due process and shipped out to a holding facility. Now, it will take the combined efforts of local officials, legal representatives and all their friends and family just to give them a chance at due process. If these efforts fail, they face the grim reality of being sent to inhumane holding sites or to a country that threatens their very way of life.

This situation is not hypothetical. This case, along

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