Calls grow for release of beloved California nurse detained by ICE: ‘We want her home’

Ann Lawani was taken from her home, sparking a huge outcry among students and faculty at her university Nearly two months after ICE agents whisked a beloved California nurse and professor from her home in Lodi, her university has ramped up calls for her release. “She needs to com

Ann Lawani was taken from her home, sparking a huge outcry among students and faculty at her university Nearly two months after ICE agents whisked a beloved California nurse and professor from her home in Lodi, her university has ramped up calls for her release. “She needs to come home,” said Eileen Fry-Bowers, dean for the University of San Francisco’s nursing school,in reference to Ann Lawani, who was arrested by immigration agents in September and has since been shuffled between detention centers in California, Texas, and Louisiana, in a series of opaque transfers. Continue reading...