A embellished scholar at a SUNY faculty, with no felony historical past, was detained by ICE alongside together with her mom.
Sara Lopez Garcia is being held by federal immigration officers in Louisiana, and is slated for deportation again to Colombia.
Lopez Garcia was detained nearly two months in the past, throughout an incident when ICE brokers had been in search of another person.
The search concluded with a cease at their Mastic dwelling, the place the coed was detained alongside together with her mom.
Her fiancée, Santiago Ruiz, says Lopez Garcia has no felony document and was within the strategy of looking for authorized standing in america.
Acknowledged as an honor scholar and peer mentor, the 20-year-old was set to graduate from Suffolk Neighborhood Faculty this winter.
“That was like a punch to the gut,” English professor Cynthia Eaton stated. “That felt awful just because I know she’s a good person.”
Household and mates are actually making an attempt to boost cash for a authorized combat to maintain the younger lady in america.
Ruiz says the couple is now resigned to the very fact, with their eyes set on spending the subsequent part of their lives in Colombia.
“I was very angry, but now I feel like everything is a process,” Ruiz stated. “Everything happens for something. I don’t know the reason yet, but I am trying to understand.”
