By Richard Wolf, USA Today
LORAIN, Ohio — Police Chief Cel Rivera recalls his first meeting with undocumented Mexican immigrants in 2013, when he learned that minor traffic infractions were leading to federal detention, deportation proceedings and the risk of broken families.
He was struck by the story of Anabel Barron, a single mother who was picked up for driving 6 miles per hour over the speed limit and wound up in a federal detention center for seven hours, fretting over the future of her four children if she was deported.
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