Overview

• Donna Hughes-Brown, 58, was detained on July 29 at Chicago O’Hare after returning from Ireland and has been held for more than a month at an ICE facility in Campbell County, Kentucky.
• U.S. authorities say a decade-old $25 bad check amounts to a crime involving moral turpitude, a vague legal category that can render a returning resident inadmissible.
• Coverage notes legislation amended on July 4 broadened grounds for detention and admissibility reviews at ports of entry.
• Her husband says she paid restitution and served probation for the misdemeanor, reports she was moved to an isolation cell, and says a deportation is scheduled for September 17.
• DHS says lawful permanent residents with certain convictions may be deemed inadmissible and detained, while friends and family have launched a GoFundMe that has raised about 86% of a $6,500 goal for legal costs.