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cab67

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1. My guess...
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 05:36 PM
Mar 2025

...is that this young lady and her family got some very bad advice about visas.

That, or they made the assumption a lot of people would make - that "working," in this context, is specifically working for money. She wasn't working for money, so they may not have understood.

Either way, ICE could easily have just sent her home. No reason to detain her.

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