Melissa Brennan is co-legal director at the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project.
On a recent sunny morning in Portland, Maine, elementary school students were arriving at Talbot Community School when something unthinkable happened. An unidentified law enforcement agent, later confirmed to be working on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), arrested a parent who had just dropped off their child.
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