"Sixteen-year-old Kerly Sosa Rivero was asleep at home on Detroit’s eastside last month when federal immigration agents burst in. They pointed a gun at her and threw her cousin, also 16, to the ground.
The agents were looking for another migrant. They detained Kerly and three family members, despite the fact all four had upcoming court dates to make formal pleas for asylum from brutal conditions in Venezuela.
Local activists have called the arrests 'kidnappings.' But for a Trump administration determined to boost deportations, they were business as usual. The enforcement dragnet routinely sweeps up people who would once have been low priorities.
'My daughter has so many dreams,' Angélica Rivero, Kerly’s mother, told Outlier Media. 'She wants to learn English and go to university.'
'They treated her like a criminal.'”
~ Koby Levin
"This Detroit teen dreams of attending college. Immigration agents arrested her at gunpoint"
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