The girl had already burst into tears when the bold, yellow letters on the man’s jacket came into focus: “Police.”
Rómulo Avelica-González had just dropped off his 12-year-old daughter, Yuleni, at a Los Angeles charter school — as he did every morning — and was heading next to the school of his 13-year-old daughter, Fatima. That’s when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents surrounded the undocumented Mexican immigrant’s Dodge Durango. Avelica-González, a 48-year-old father of four who has lived illegally in the U.S. for more than 25 years, had been convicted of drunken driving nearly a decade ago, and there was a deportation order against him.
[For more of this story, written by Mark Keierleber, go to https://www.the74million.org/a...mmigration-crackdown]
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