On Thursday, March 12th, Celia was at Atlanta’s Hartfield Jackson airport. She was feeling proud; she’d spent the previous day attending her stepson’s military graduation ceremony. She was now heading home, and about to board her flight back to San Diego.
Then, she said, her name was called to come to the front desk.
As she made her way to the gate agents she “turned around and there were like 30 men coming my way.” The men, said Celia, were ICE officers, there to arrest her, with a “deportation notice that they claim to have.”
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