These local agreements between ICE and sheriffs continue to terrorize immigrant communities
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Maira Oviedo-Granados, an asylum-seeker living in Knoxville, Tennessee, dialed 911 for help when a jealous and previously violent boyfriend tried to attack her on Nov. 7, 2020. She managed to lock herself and her three children in a bedroom as she told tThese local agreements between ICE and sheriffs continue to terrorize immigrant communities
Maira Oviedo-Granados, an asylum-seeker living in Knoxville, Tennessee, dialed 911 for help when a jealous and previously violent boyfriend tried to attack her on Nov. 7, 2020. She managed to lock herself and her three children in a bedroom as she told the operator through an interpreter that he was armed. The operator asked if the boyfriend had struck her. “Interpreter on behalf of Oviedo-Granados: ‘No, not the kids, but he has me,’” Knox News reports. She told the operator he hadn’t hit her at that time because a friend was there. But once officers arrived, it was Oviedo-Granados who was eventually detained under a flawed, racist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program. She’s now suing. Read more
