What Happened
Before dawn on Dec. 8, 2025, Miguel Garcia Pazaran, husband to Dulce Maria Trejo Segura — still in his pajamas and house slippers — was driving his wife, Trejo Segura, to her shift at a snack production plant in Forest Grove, Oregon, when ICE agents pulled them over. The couple, who had lived in Oregon without legal authorization for four years and had no criminal record, were taken to a detention center in Tacoma, Washington, and deported to Mexico within eight days.
Their 2-year-old daughter, Sofía, a U.S. citizen, was left behind at the family’s home in Hillsboro. From detention, Trejo Segura called her sister-in-law, Maggie Garcia, who lived with the family and sometimes helped with child care, and asked her to “take care of Sofía.” Garcia quit her job at a building materials warehouse to care for the toddler full-time; the couple had no other close relatives in Oregon.
“It’s like a living nightmare, we are devastated. We need to find a solution to reunite them as soon as possible.”Maggie Garcia
