Claudia Portillo is back in her Arcata home but it doesn’t feel like the same one she left behind. And what seems like it should be a happy ending is instead just the beginning for the young mother and her four daughters, who are working their way back to a semblance of how things used […]
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Detained Arcata Mom Back With Family
Claudia Portillo is back with family. Seven months after the Arcata mother of four was detained during a routine immigration check-in in San Francisco, the 33 year old was released Tuesday after posting a $12,000 bond. Portillo had been held at federal detention center in Bakersfield where she was transferred in December, one month after […]
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Arcata Mom Granted Bail After 7-Month Immigration Detention
An Arcata woman has been granted the opportunity to post bail by a federal immigration judge after a seven-month detention in Bakersfield. Claudia Portillo, a 33 year old who immigrated to the United States from El Salvador when she was 7, was taken into custody and transferred to the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility in […]