Annie Martinez's life changed in an instant in 2018 after she was arrested by ICE at a custody hearing and deported from her home in Kearns, Utah, back to Mexico just ten days later.
The ICE arrest was not an unlucky coincidence; instead, it was deliberately orchestrated by the father of two of her five children, her partner of two years, during a bitter custody battle following their breakup. The hearing was to terminate his parental right on the basis of abandonment.
