While some Richmonders celebrate Hispanic heritage, others lament loss of freedoms

Yenni Jimenez Acosta, Contributing Writer

Nelie Ceron-Cruz, a fourth-year business student at VCU, found out in May her father had been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, through a phone call by her sister.

“That’s when she told me, she was like, ‘Oh, Dad got caught, like Dad got detained,’” Ceron-Cruz said. “I didn’t really start thinking about it until I started driving to work; ‘my dad, like my dad’s really gotten taken away from me.’”…

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