A Nicaraguan asylum seeker checked in with Ice every week. He was arrested anyway

A Nicaraguan asylum seeker checked in with Ice every week. He was arrested anyway

Alberto Lovo Rojas fled violence in his home country. Now, he fears Trump-backed deportation

It finally happened while he was waiting to get his hair cut.

Alberto Lovo Rojas, an asylum seeker from Nicaragua, had been feeling uneasy for weeks, worried that immigration officials would arrest him any moment. But he had pushed the worry aside as irrational – after all, he had a permit to legally work in the US, and he had been using an app to check in monthly with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice).

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