The Biden administration remade ICE after Trump. But will it last?
LOS ANGELES — As Anastasia Abarca left for work at 4:40 a.m., four immigration officers appeared at the door.
They asked for her brother. It was his home, and she had just dropped off her 7-year-old son there.
Abarca, a Mexican immigrant, was in the country without legal status. But she wasn’t the one they were looking for, and she had no criminal record.
Still, the officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested her and took her to a detention center 30 minutes from her home in San Jose.
It was May 2019. During Donald Trump’s presidency, immigration enforcement had ramped up. Bystanders like Abarca, swept up in a search for someone else, were less likely to be spared.
Abarca, who worked as a baker and had been in the U.S. for about 14 years, was released that day. But a deportation order hung
