New Orleans mom, Nancy Oliva Baca, had been checking in routinely with ICE for years but was arrested at her ICE check-in on Friday June 29th without warning, explanation, or consideration for how this could impact her children for years to come.

Nancy has been a member of our community since 2006, when she moved to New Orleans to help reconstruct the city after the storm. Her twin daughters, Yoani and Rachel, are 9 years old and her son, is 17. Nancy is also a longtime member of the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice's Congress of Day Laborers, and has fought to defend human rights in our city for many years. Now, she is en route to the notorious La Salle Detention Center, three hours away.





Nancy's arrest is just one example of why ICE should not exist. It's completely unacceptable that ICE spends billions of dollars to detain beloved members of our community like Nancy in internment camps every day.





Please send a message to the New Orleans ICE office to release Nancy so that she can remain with her family.