For six weeks, US immigration agents detained a recipient of the Deferred Action for Children Arrivals (DACA), an immigration policy that allows undocumented individuals brought to the US as children to become eligible for employment and avoid deportation for two-year terms. Selene Saavedra Roman, who was born in Peru but has resided in Texas for the majority of her life, was recently released after weeks of DACA-related bureaucracy. In what was supposed to be the beginning of a dream job as a flight attendant, Saavedra Roman underwent an ordeal. After completing a flight training last December, she joined Arizona-based Mesa Airlines in January. She had been working for the airline for almost a month when her company...
Thank you for linking the petition; I’m happy to write my name in to help her. I hope The North Star includes more stories about the lives who are being RUINED by ICE along with the petition to help them.
ICE is very dangerous to our moral dilemma on immigration. This entire country had illegal immigration as its core population generation. The fact immigrants from predominantly white countries are not being randomly detained by ICE agents shows or should tell us that there is more to what ICE is really doing versus just getting rid of illegal immigrants. They (ICE-White males) are preparing for a democracy takeover. These are very dangerous times for this country.