A Congress member from Oregon and an immigration attorney are pushing for the release of a victim of domestic violence and single mother who has been detained in Tacoma since last summer when federal agents arrested her and others on their way to pick berries.
Marta Escalante Perez, 29, mother of a 5-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, was among the first group of farmworkers detained in Oregon by immigration authorities under the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
They were stopped in early August near Woodburn on their way to work, among more than 2,100 people arrested in Oregon since President Donald Trump took office…