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'Bring Carol home’: ICE snatches rural Missouri mom at immigration check-in
The Midwest Newsroom | By Kavahn Mansouri, Chad Davis
Published May 24, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. CDT
Carol Mayorga — a Kennett, Missouri woman — went to St. Louis last month for what she thought was a routine meeting with immigration officials to renew a work visa. Instead, they shackled her and are now trying to deport her to Hong Kong.
Carol Mayorga sat at a small table inside the Greene County Jail in Springfield, Missouri, on Wednesday morning. She appeared on screen via the jail’s video visitation service, wearing a muted green jumpsuit, her eyeglasses framed by her black hair.
Mayorga, whose legal name is Ming Li Hui, has been detained in jail under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since late April. She’d traveled from Kennett, Missouri, her home for nearly two decades, to St. Louis for what she thought was a routine meeting to renew her employment authorization document.
The document, issued by the federal government, allows her to work legally in the U.S. and is set to expire in January 2026.
Originally from Hong Kong, Mayorga said she was used to the meetings. But when she arrived, things were anything but usual.
https://www.stlpr.org/law-order/2025-05-24/missouri-kennett-woman-ice-deportation-visa
This is in deep red southern MO. The article doesn't reveal who the woman herself may have voted for, but most of the people interviewed were Trump supporters.
ETA: She wasn't eligible to vote. (too early in the morning to think of that)
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