Marilu Domingo Ortiz

Marilu Domingo Ortiz is the wife of Juan Francisco Mendez, a man recently detained by ICE agents in a troubling incident in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She recorded the event, which involved agents smashing the car window to apprehend her husband, and has since spoken out about the emotional toll the detention is taking on her family. Ortiz and her son have been granted asylum, while Mendez was in the process of applying for derivative asylum.