Dan Kowalski on Immigration Law and Policy

"Tara Ammons Cohen doesn’t feel like a celebrity.

She didn’t look like one Monday, dressed in the bright yellow pants and formless shirt of a woman detainee sitting inside a small white-washed interview room at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.

Her only “jewelry” was the plastic identification bracelet she has worn on her left wrist for more than 17 months.

Her story — of adoption as a 5-month-old in Mexico by American parents and how 38 years later she now faces deportation to the country where she has never lived — has gone viral on the Internet."