"One evening last summer, Donna Hughes-Brown was handcuffed and led into a filthy holding cell somewhere in Kentucky, where insects crawled out of a drain and feces streaked the walls. The Missouri grandmother's life had taken an unrecognizable turn days earlier, whenfederal agents pulled her off an arriving flight at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, arrested her and told her she would be deported."
"Hughes-Brown, a lawful permanent resident of the United States since she was a child, would go on to spend 143 days - nearly five months - in detention. She was only released at the end of last year after an immigrationjudge granted an application to stop her removal. Her story underscores just how far the Trump administration is willing to go in its quest to boost deportations, extending its dragnet to people who are legally present in the country with minor offenses from years earlier."
Donna Hughes-Brown, a 59-year-old Irish citizen and longtime lawful permanent resident, was pulled off an arriving flight at Chicago's O'Hare, arrested and told she would be deported over two bad checks totaling less than $75 written more than a decade earlier. She spent 143 days — nearly five months — in detention in a filthy holding cell before an immigration judge granted an application to stop her removal. The case reflects an expanded deportation effort targeting legally present people for minor historical offenses. Releases from ICE detention fell about 70 percent in November compared with a year earlier. DHS defended its handling.
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