Bruna Caroline Ferreira is seen with her son in an undated photograph. A portion of this image has been obscured by CNN to protect a minor's identity. From Graziela Dos Santos Rodrigues

Bruna Ferreira came to the US from Brazil as a child, and by all accounts, lived a life like any American: playing on the high school tennis team, getting married and divorced, building a small business and helping raise her son.

When she was taken into custody by ICE agents earlier this month as she left her home in a Boston suburb to pick up her son from school, it didn’t make headlines: she was another immigrant caught up in President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown, despite having developed strong American roots.

But during her arrest, Ferreira repeatedly told authorities that her son’s aunt w

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