Hundreds rally to free Iowa City mother seized by ICE and facing third-country deportation; Miller-Meeks asks for stay from DHS (Updated)
Hundreds rallied to support an Iowa City mother detained by ICE who faces deportation to the Ivory Coast. Representative Miller-Meeks has requested a stay from the Department of Homeland Security.
Early last Thursday morning, ICE agents seized a longtime Iowa City resident as she was preparing to drive to work with her sister. Fatou Traore came to the United States in 2005 from the Ivory Coast (Côte d’Ivoire), a West African nation. In 2011, an immigration court judge granted her an order of withholding of […]
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