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For the first time in about 17 years, the Butler County Sheriff’s Office will no longer work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants.
Maya Rose Bliffeld s family is separated.
Not at the U.S.-Mexico border, but in middle America, where immigration officials are detaining her biological mother despite Biden administration policies allowing for her release.
Sara Mendez-Morales, 33, is an indigenous Guatemalan woman who doesn t know if or when she ll be released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention in Butler County Jail near Cincinnati, where she s been since August. Or if she ll ever again see her younger children, 4- and 12-year-old girls, now in foster care.
But Bliffeld, Columbus-area advocates and Mendez-Morales immigration attorney are fighting for her release. They say ICE keeping her detained goes against the federal agency s own policies and is immoral.