A campaigning Donald Trump said “We will terminate the Obama administration’s deadly non-enforcement policies that allow thousands of criminal aliens to freely roam our streets,” last year in Phoenix. It looks like he has now decided to enforce his policy—maybe for the first time in Arizona—on the 35-year-old mother of two Guadalupe Garcia de Rayos. 

Guadalupe came from Acámbaro, a city in the southern corner of the state of Guanajuato on its border with Michoacán, and at the age of 14 she found herself crossing into Arizona from Nogales. She married her husband, also an undocumented immigrant in Arizona, and they had two children, Jacqueline and Angel. Guadalupe’s first run-in with the law was under the Obama administration in 2008 at Golfland Sunsplash a water park at which she worked in Mesa, Arizona.

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Her arrest was during one of many raids ordered by the self-proclaimed “America’s Toughest Sheriff” Joe Arpaio. Guadalupe was arrested, along with many other undocumented immigrants, for using a fake Social Security number. Ever since that day eight years ago she has been required to attend ICE meetings.

Guadalupe, who was aware of what might happen after Trump was elected, went in to have her regular meeting with ICE after she attended mass on Feb. 8. She walked in with an attorney and surrounded by a group of volunteers from Puente, Arizona that morning and was not seen the rest of the day, until that night. When she was being loaded into a van to be taken to an unknown location.

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The want of a better life for family, giving to their children what they never had, isn’t that what every parent wants for their children? How can this country go on to punish hard working people instead of trying to help them? What has happened to “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?” Are these no longer the values of the United States?

This country has changed, especially in recent weeks. We find ourselves in a hate-fueled country, with mosques being burned to the ground and mothers being torn from their children. The zenophobia of the newly appointed leaders of this country is a far worse crime than an immigrants willingness to sacrifice it all for family.

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