Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is demanding ICE immediately release a Portland nursing student.
She says the teen has been held in Texas for months and given no reason why.
Pingree says 19-year-old Olivia Andre has been held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas since November.
She and her family are asylum seekers from the Congo and have been living in Portland where Andre was a first-year nursing student.
Pingree says Andre has been given no explanation for her detention or legal counsel.
She says Andre told her she’s lost 20 pounds and feels lost and alone.
Pingree said in part:
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“ICE is not free to detain individuals without explanation. Every additional day that passes without a clear explanation only deepens my belief that this detention lacks any lawful or articulable basis.”