In the early hours of 5 November, ICE agents dragged Juana Avila out of her van, handcuffed and detained her in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Emely, her daughter, soon arrived on the scene and explained her mother had a green card and was carrying it with her. The officers proceeded to handcuff Juana and put her in their SUV. Juana’s arrest was part of a lawsuit that secured a major victory for immigrants’ rights in Oregon. The lawsuit challenged ICE’s tactic of detaining people without warrants or probable cause, a practice advocates say has fuelled widespread racial profiling and chaotic arrests