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Among other details, she is an American citizen, daughter of American citizens. But, apparently, she didn’t look like one to the cops.
“I had never been in trouble,” Ms. Davila said in an interview. Her thoughts, as she tried to sleep on a holding cell floor: “Am I going to be taken back to Mexico? Is my car going to be taken away from me?”
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Reggie Shuford, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, which is providing the legal muscle for the lawsuit, called her case “a blatant example of ethnic profiling. … The police questioned her status only because of her ethnicity and that of her passenger.”
Details at the link.
