Summary: In 2008, Roxana Orellana Santos, a dishwasher, was arrested while eating lunch outside her workplace in Frederick after two sheriff’s deputies questioned her and determined she was to be deported on a civil immigration warrant. She was held in an immigration detention facility for 45 days. Last week, a federal appeals court ruled the deputies had no basis to arrest or even briefly detain Santos. Immigration advocates says she was racially profiled as part of the Frederick sheriff’s involvement in a federal program that has led to the deportation of hundreds of undocumented workers. A look at Frederick County’s aggressive approach to illegal immigrants with Sheriff Chuck Jenkins; Jose Perez, an attorney with LatinoJustice, who litigated the Santos case; Blaine Young, commissioner for Frederick County; and Kim Propeack, political director, CASA de Maryland.
