In Kenner, a routine traffic stop can be a gateway to deportation

This article was produced in partnership with Gulf States Newsroom.

Alexander Sanchez had only been in the United States for two months when police officers pulled him over one morning in December near a major intersection in Kenner, about 10 miles outside of New Orleans.

It was a routine stop — the Kenner Police officers who pulled him over said Sanchez had run a red light — but it ended with Sanchez in a federal immigration detention center…

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