One woman’s fight to free her partner from ICE detention

Since President Donald Trump’s second term began, nine out of ten people deported by federal immigration officers have been men — a ratio that has remained consistent even as the number of detainees has skyrocketed, according to a Washington Post analysis. Many of those detained have lived and worked in the U.S. for years, upending the livelihoods and routines of scores of families.

One of those families is Roxana Torres Valdés and her partner Maikel Rojas, who spent five months detained at Florida’s infamous “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration facility. While he was inside, Roxana started a WhatsApp group for women in the same situation — it grew to 90 members, all asking the same desperate question: where are our loved ones?

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