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NEWSWATCH SEVEN AT FIVE. IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT HAS DETAINED MORE THAN 56,000 PEOPLE AS OF MID JUNE THIS YEAR. THAT’S ACCORDING TO NEW IMMIGRATION DATA. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. I’M BILL SCHAMMERT AND I’M QUANECIA FRASER. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S MADISON PERALES SPOKE WITH AN IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY ABOUT RECENT DETAINMENTS AND DATA SHOWING A SHIFT IN DETENTION TRENDS. MADISON. YEAH, I LOOKED AT DATA FROM THE TRANSACTIONAL RECORDS ACCESS CLEARINGHOUSE, ALSO KNOWN AS TRAC. YOU CAN SEE A TREND OF RISING ACTIONS BY ICE OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS, AND FALLING ACTIONS BY CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION. TRAC DATA ALSO SAYS NEARLY 72% OF DETAINEES HAVE NO CRIMINAL RECORD. I SPOKE WITH AN OMAHA IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY ABOUT HER FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE OF THIS HAPPENING TO HER CLIENT. YOU ONLY LEAVE HOME WHEN HOME WON’T LET YOU STAY. RACHEL YAMAMOTO IS A LONGTIME OMAHA IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY. THESE ROCKS IN HER POEM BULL, REPRESENT PEOPLE SHE’S HELPED WIN ASYLUM FOR. YOU ONLY RUN FOR THE BORDER WHEN YOU SEE THE WHOLE CITY RUNNING AS WELL. ONE OF HER CLIENTS, MARIA, LOST HER ASYLUM CASE IN 2020. IN 2014, MARIA AND HER THREE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER WERE RUNNING FROM GANG VIOLENCE IN GUATEMALA. SHE TURNED HERSELF IN AT THE BORDER ICE, PLACED HER UNDER AN ORDER OF SUPERVISION. EVERYBODY ON AN ORDER OF SUPERVISION HAS BEEN AT THE MERCY OF ICE THE WHOLE TIME. AND SO IT’S JUST VERY EASY TO JUST CALL THEM IN AND HAVE THEM COME TO THEIR APPOINTMENT AGAIN, AS THEY HAVE BEEN DOING FOR YEARS. AND DETAIN THEM DURING MARIA’S ANNUAL CHECK IN MAY OF 2025. THEY PUT AN ANKLE BRACELET ON HER. IT MEANS THEY’RE ALREADY GOING TO BE DETAINED. AND DON’T LET THAT PERSON GO. THAT’S MARIA’S HUSBAND, ABEL. FOR SAFETY REASONS, WE AREN’T SHOWING HIS FACE. HE CAME TO THE U.S. IN 2012 FOR THE SAME REASONS AS MARIA. THEY HAVE A SON HERE. THEY WERE ASKED TO MEET ICE IN ANOTHER LOCATION ON JUNE 4TH. I KNEW MARIA WAS AT A PRETTY HIGH RISK OF PROBABLY GETTING DETAINED AT HER NEXT APPOINTMENT BECAUSE OF THE STATUS OF HER CASE. ON JUNE 4TH, THEY ALLOWED YAMAMOTO TO GO IN WITH MARIA. THEY WERE VERY POLITE AND CALM THE WHOLE TIME. YAMAMOTO SAYS SHE WASN’T ALLOWED TO TALK. THEY WERE GOING TO CALL BACK HER DAUGHTER INTO THE ROOM AND HAVE HER. BE DETAINED AS WELL. THEY SAY IT’S BECAUSE SHE WAS WITH MARIA WHEN THEY CROSSED THE BORDER WHEN SHE WAS THREE YEARS OLD. ABEL HAD TO TELL THEIR TEN YEAR OLD SON WHAT HAPPENED. I TOLD HIM, DON’T BE TOO SAD. WE WILL SEE THEM AGAIN SOON. THAT’S WHAT I TELL HIM, SO HE CAN CALM DOWN A BIT AND NOT FEEL SO SAD. RIGHT NOW, MARIA AND HER DAUGHTER ARE TOGETHER IN A DETENTION CENTER IN TEXAS. THAT’S THE LEAST YOU CAN DO IS KEEP A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL WITH HER MOTHER, YAMAMOTO SAYS. IN HER 22 YEARS IN LAW, SHE’S NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS. SHE ADDS SHE’S SEEN A SHIFT IN ICE’S ACTION OVER THE LAST MONTH AND A HALF. THIS DETENTION WITH MARIA IS PROBABLY WHEN IT REALLY HIT HOME THAT THINGS HAVE CHANGED, SHE SAYS. MARIA AND HER DAUGHTER HAVE NO CRIMINAL RECORD, AND MARIA WAS WORKING LEGALLY. YAMAMOTO SAYS ABEL, MARIA’S DAUGHTER, WILL GET AN ASYLUM INTERVIEW. SHE HOPES TO ADD THEIR NAMES TO HER POEM BULL. I DO HOPE TO ADD ABEL’S NAME TO MY MY PILE OF SUCCESSES FOR ASYLUM CASES. ICE TELLS ME A PART OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FOCUS IS TO FIND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WHO, QUOTE, POSE A THREAT TO THE SECURITY OF OUR COMMUNITIES. END QUOTE. I SENT ICE MARIA AND HER DAUGHTERS INFORMATION AND ASKED IF THEY’RE A THREAT TO THE CO