Ashley Sosa normally saw her husband off to work. Two weeks ago, on a Tuesday morning, she was too tired to get out of bed.

Her husband, Pablo Sosa, decided to let her sleep. He grabbed the car keys and kissed her, but his goodbye barely registered.

It was the last time she would see him.

Just minutes before arriving at his job at a restaurant in Luzerne County, where the couple lives, Sosa’s car was hit by another vehicle. What should have been a routine exchange of insurance information between two drivers ended later that day with the deportation of Sosa to Guatemala.

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term — framed by his mass deportation rhetoric — stories of the random detention and deportation of men, women and children by ICE, like that of the Sosas, have become common

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