Jessica Cheung
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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I first spoke to Isla back in February.
This was a month into the Trump administration, which had promised quick and mass deportations.
I was calling immigration lawyers around the country, trying to get a sense of who exactly was getting targeted for deportation and how ICE was fining them.
And that's when a lawyer called me back, saying you got to talk to Isla.
She's Fabrizio's 20-year-old daughter.
Right now, Ayla's a sophomore at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Massachusetts, where she's studying architecture and interior design.
She was raised in a town called Saugus, just outside Boston, where days before we had talked, her dad was detained by ICE officers.
Tell me a little bit about your dad.
How old is he and what does he do?
Ayla told me in 2001 her dad had settled here in Massachusetts as an undocumented immigrant.