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Slide 5 of 6
Award of Excellence: Untitled
June 29, 2018
After 19 days of imprisonment and 12 hours of transportation between facilities, Jose Luis Garcia is released to his family and friends. As one last added insult, ICE agents drove Jose around for hours to avoid the media seeing his release. After changing the release location twice, he was dropped on a street corner alone. Despite his legal permanent resident status, Garcia was held for 19 days and slotted for deportation due to a misdemeanor conviction from 17 years prior due to current Trump administration policy. Critics of the policy say that in a supposed effort to round up dangerous criminals and gang members, innocent immigrants are being swept up by ICE agents because they take fewer resources to arrest and deport.