There’s no reasoning or justification for this latest act from Donald Trump’s deportation force. It’s just unabashed cruelty:

The mother of four American children, the youngest of whom is three years old, has been picked up by federal agents at her home in Fairfield, Ohio, and taken into detention ahead of imminent deportation back to her native Mexico. Maribel Trujillo has been told that her deportation is set for next Tuesday from the US, where she has lived for the past 15 years. Her rushed removal is one of the starkest examples yet of Donald Trump’s push to catch and deport undocumented immigrants who previously were tolerated by the authorities as law-abiding and peaceful members of society.

Maribel was put into deportation proceedings in 2014, “but with no criminal history she was essentially left alone by ICE under the Obama administration and only expected to check in with officials once a month.” Maribel was even “granted government permission to work in a local candy factory” through this summer, which means she pays her taxes and supports her family.

But when Maribel followed the rules by checking into her ICE meeting the month after Trump was inaugurated as president, she was outfitted with an ankle bracelet by immigration officials and told she was now a target for deportation. Yesterday, she was arrested by ICE outside her home and stands to be deported as early as next week: