A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of a Woodburn woman held by immigration authorities for eight months after her arrest with others on their way to pick berries.
Marta Escalante Perez was among the first group of farmworkers detained in Oregon by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents under the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign.
Escalante Perez, the single mother of a 5-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, is Indigenous Mam from Guatemala and came to the U.S. in 2015 at age 18 to escape violence, including gang rapes when she was 14, according to her attorney and court records…