Mother seeking asylum released after ICE raid in Vermont

WBUR | By Here & Now Newsroom

Published March 17, 2026 at 11:57 AM EDT

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Derek Brouwer, a reporter with Vermont Public, about an asylum-seeker and mother of two from Ecuador being released Monday after she was detained in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid in South Burlington, Vermont.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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