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Ms Murphy said she was denied legal representation after initially declining the option of deportation.

For months, officials had set the stage for mass deportations in White House media briefings, X posts and Fox News hits.

Medina’s husband, Saldana, was wanted for being in the country following his deportation.

And she is a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the 2012 policy that provides protection from deportation to immigrants without lawful status who came to the U.S. as children.

One of the larger crowds was in Los Angeles where leaders and law enforcement have been on high alert during days of protests, sometimes violent, against a series of deportation raids.