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Utahns protest deportation of activist to part of Mexico where her family faced kidnappings, murder

West Valley City • Protesters at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office Friday portrayed Cecelia Figueroa as a poster child for the havoc created by the Trump administration now targeting any undocumented immigrant for deportation instead of mainly those with criminal records.

Figueroa — a psychiatrist by trade known in Utah as an immigrant-rights activist and a volunteer who helps migrants access health care and nutrition — and her supporters contend that if is she is returned home to a violent part of Mexico on Labor Day, as now ordered, it could become a massacre day.