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On a December morning, Border Patrol agents confronted a 15-year-old high school student named Jahveel Ocampo at a rest stop in California while she and her friends were on their way to the mountains to see the winter’s first snow. Jahveel was a young child when she came to the United States from Mexico with her parents, and she grew up undocumented in southern California. She was a mother to a 2-year-old child, who was a U.S. citizen.

Staff Attorney Billy Peard explains why the U.S. should not be separating people from their families and sending them into dangerous territories.

The revisions are an important step toward eliminating racial profiling by Phoenix police.