ImmigrationDirect

Putting a human face on the sometimes abstract debate regarding U.S.
immigration policy, the News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington, recently
profiled a local resident whose immigration status has caused strife for
herself and her family.
The subject of the News Tribune feature, Tara Ammons Cohen, is a
39-year-old woman who was brought to the United States as an infant but
never went through the naturalization process. Her citizenship status
exacerbated the consequences of her struggle with substance abuse; her
2008 arrest on a drug charge landed her in a federal immigration ins
detention center in Tacoma, where she remained for nearly three years.