Yesterday, June 21 2018, Vernon Freeman Jr., Brendan King, and the web staff of CBS 6 published a story on asylum-seeker Abbie Arevalo-Herrera. You can read it here.
It's not just in the border zone: ICE is ripping apart families right here, too. Abbie Arevalo-Herrera arrived in the U.S. and applied for asylum in 2014, having fled from an abusive ex-partner who threatened to kill her and her child. The threats have continued, and her asylum case is ongoing, but ICE wants to deport her anyway— and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently ordered immigration judges to be stricter about asylum claims, saying that fear of death due to gang violence or domestic abuse is not a good enough reason to be granted asylum.
For now, Ms. Arevalo-Herrera is living at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond while she appeals the deportation order.
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