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Lauren Michel Wilfong

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“It’s part of an approach of ‘grab first, justify later’. [They] detain people because they appear ‘suspicious’ – and here ‘suspicious’ just means Latino,”

Lauren Michel Wilfong · said date not stated · reported 2026-11-05

Wilfong said Zepeda's detention matched a pattern of ICE grabbing people who appear Latino and justifying it later.

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