By RYAN J. FOLEY and JULIO CORTEZ, Associated Press

ROGERS, Ark. (AP) — She was already separated from her husband, the family breadwinner and father of her two youngest children, and had lost the home they shared in Arkansas .

Then Cristina Osornio was ensnared by the nation’s rapidly expanding immigration enforcement crackdown just months after her husband was deported to Mexico. Following a traffic stop in Benton County, in the state’s northwest corner, she was jailed for several days on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement hold, records show, even though she is a legal permanent U.S. resident and the mother of six children.

Cristina Osornio and her 3-year-old daughter, Valentina, decorate a Christmas tree in their apartment, Nov. 18, 2025, in Rogers, Ark. (AP Photo/Julio Cor

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