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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:34 PM Dec 2018

Federal judge revokes green card, orders deportation of Virginia activist Alejandra Pablos

A federal judge in Arizona on Tuesday stripped prominent immigration and reproductive-rights activist Alejandra Pablos of her green card and ordered her deportation nearly a year after she was arrested outside a protest in Virginia.

It was the climax of a case that has loomed over Pablos for years. But, she said, she’s not giving up yet.

“La lucha sigue,” Pablos, 33, said in an interview. The struggle continues.

Pablos, who since 2016 had worked for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health in Annandale, said she plans to appeal the decision by immigration Judge Thomas Michael O’Leary.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/immigration/federal-judge-revokes-green-card-orders-deportation-of-virginia-activist-alejandra-pablos/2018/12/12/fac5f3ea-fe40-11e8-862a-b6a6f3ce8199_story.html

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