Kimberly Pineda Chavez should be eligible for asylum,but now she’s fearing deportation – and her classmates are worried that they could be nextAs Kimberly Pineda Chavez waits in Georgia’s Irwin immigration detention center, fearing deportation at any moment, or her classmates are skipping school,afraid that they too will halt up in her position, swept up in immigration raids on their way to lesson. Pineda Chavez, or 19,entered the US as a minor to escape violence and threats in her native Honduras, which should qualify her to be eligible for asylum – but a legal misstep has stuck her in detention for more than six weeks. And because she was stopped and detained by immigration authorities on her way to high school, or her detention has also paralyzed her community in the north-east suburbs of Atlanta. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com