Loudoun immigration attorneys say clients feeling impact of mass deportations

The Trump administration’s mass deportations have turned the American dream into a nightmare for immigrants in Loudoun County seeking refuge, two local immigration attorneys say.

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Immigration rights activists demonstrated outside Sterling Immigration Court in Sterling June 12.

Times-Mirror/Evan Goodenow A participant in an Aug. 19 protest outside Sterling Immigration Court wears white in a tribute to the “Mothers of the Disappeared,” a group of Argentinian women who protested the kidnapping of their children by the military dictatorship that controlled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

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