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Family fears deportation for North Carolina woman with valid work permit held in immigration detention center

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — A 23-year-old Wake County woman with a valid work permit and no criminal record is now being held in a Georgia immigration detention center after federal immigration agents ...
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What is a work permit — and why it doesn’t prevent immigration detention

NEW ORLEANS — Vilma Palacios has been held at the Basile, Louisiana detention center since June, even though she says she was in the process of renewing her work permit. “I told him 'why am I under ...