SPOKANE, Wash. – A Spokane family is asking for help to bring a wife and mother home after ICE agents arrested her outside the county courthouse.
Lauren Morris was arrested by ICE agents last Wednesday while waiting for her husband to pick her up at the Spokane County Courthouse. Two black SUVs with ICE agents arrested her after she confirmed her identity.
Morris was at the courthouse for probation related to a restraining order violation from a year and a half ago. Court records show the restraining order has since been rescinded.
Her family says she has legal residency status in the United States, since the age of 15, when she came from England.
“We’ve been doing nothing but trying to, you know, fix our mistakes and get our lives back on track,” said Mitch Atkinson, Morris’s husband.
The arrest happened in front of Morris’s 16-month-old daughter, Evelyn.
“If they were watching her, you know, they could have picked her up at any time. Why did they have to wait until she got in the car with us and for the baby to see everything?” Atkinson said.
Morris is being held at Tacoma Northwest Detention Center. The family expects a hearing on February 26th.
“Best case scenario, the best thing that could possibly happen is they let her out and she’s stranded in Tacoma, and we have to figure out how to get her home,” Atkinson said.
The family created a GoFundMe to raise money for an immigration lawyer before the hearing.
4 News Now reached out to the local ICE office for comment but did not hear back.
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