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Sara Beltran Hernandez

Sara Beltran Hernandez is an asylum-seeker from El Salvador. 

articles/2017/03/27/undocumented-mom-with-brain-tumor-i-came-seeking-safety-ice-locked-me-up/170327-sara-beltran-hernandez-tease_ez8mfx
opinion
‘The Lucky Ones’

I Came Seeking Safety & ICE Locked Me Up

A plea from the woman detained for over a year by ICE even after she was diagnosed with a brain tumor to end America’s cruel, if anything but unusual, treatment of asylum seekers.

Sara Beltran Hernandez

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