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0:00It's April 9th. This is Vancouver News today, AI-powered stories from your city. I'm Cory with the story. A Canadian mom from British Columbia named Tenea Warner and her seven-year-old daughter Ila just got released from an ICE detention center in Dilly, Texas on April 2nd after 19 straight days locked up. Despite Warner insisting they had legal status to live in the U.S. with her husband, immigration officials grabbed them anyway, even with a green card. Impending and work authorization docs in hand. Warner says the place was packed with families like hers, all trying to do things by the book. No criminals, just folks with paperwork glitches or bad. Lawyer advice who'd been stateside for years without issues. She never dreamed this could hit a privileged Canadian like her, but it did. Turning their world upside down. The real damage hit Aila Hardest, who's on the autism spectrum and state scared the whole time with spotty schooling that fell short of Texas. Standards and stress-killing focus for all the kids there.

1:02Some teens missed almost a year of class, crushing dreams like college plans, though Aila did make some tight friendships that soften the blow. Warner spired up now, plotting a lawsuit over the trauma to her daughter while their next immigration hearing looms on April 16th. Texas rep Joaquin Castro's been slamming the spot too, visiting four times this year and pushing to shut it down over what he calls prison bives, profiting off innocent kids. Warner's using her voice to spotlight this, believing it's her duty to expose how due process gets skipped for families on U.S. soil, vowing to fight. On for Aila and those friends they left behind.