PHOENIX — For eight years, Guadalupe García de Rayos had checked in at the federal Immigration<br />and Customs Enforcement office here, a requirement since she was caught using a fake Social Security number during a raid in 2008 at a water park where she worked.<br />Lawyers from two of the nation’s leading civil rights’ groups said Ms. Rayos might be the first undocumented<br />immigrant to be arrested during a scheduled meeting with immigration officials since Mr. Trump took office.<br />“We’re living in a new era now, an era of war on immigrants,” Ms. Rayos’s lawyer, Ray A. Ybarra Maldonado, said Wednesday after leaving the building here<br />that houses the federal immigration agency, known by its acronym, ICE.<br />Mr. Trump, she said, “took the gloves off agents and has permitted these agents to go<br />after immigrants regardless of their ties and contributions to the United States.”<br />Ms. Rayos was 14 when she left Acambaro, a city in an impoverished corner of the Mexican state of Guanajuato,<br />and sneaked across the border into Nogales, Ariz., a three-hour drive from Phoenix.<br />In 2013, an immigration court ordered that she be sent back to Mexico,<br />but her case had been on hold since the federal authorities — under the Obama administration — decided not to act on the deportation order.<br />Among the 18 executive orders that he has issued since taking office on Jan. 20 is one stipulating<br />that undocumented immigrants convicted of any criminal offense — and even those who have not been charged but are believed to have committed “acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense” — have become a priority for deportation.
