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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 2, 2022

In a lengthy piece recently published, the Commercial Appeal explores the recent deportations of women and children by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office in Memphis. According to the paper, women and their children, who have been arriving at the office for routine check ins, have been detained and taken to the airport for deportation. In one case, a woman from Honduras, married to a naturalized U.S. citizen who had filed an immigration application on her behalf, was set to be deported with her son, a patient at St. Jude. When her husband learned of the plan, he worked with a lawyer to halt the action. Others have not been as fortunate. A woman from Mexico was deported with her three U.S. citizen children. The American Immigration Lawyers Association says it is looking into these cases. ICE would not comment beyond saying that local offices can set their own deportation priorities.