On the morning of Jan. 22, Armande Namegni went for a run, then to the gym, showered and later rode with a friend to St. Louis from O’Fallon, Missouri, for her yearly Immigration and Customs Enforcement check-in.
A typical immigration check-in for Namegni would last about 40 minutes, but the Cameroonian asylum seeker said this time it took nearly three hours.
“Finally, when they called me, I went inside, but instead of standing at the door and getting a new notice to appear, I just went inside, and they said, ‘Well, we’re going to have to detain you today,'” she said. “I asked them, ‘Why, what’s different about today?’ They said, ‘We see a pending charge on your name.'”…