Teen Who Took On ICE for Her Father Dies After Cancer Fight
A 16-year-old Chicago girl fought stage 4 cancer while battling ICE to bring her father home. A judge blocked his deportation days before she died.
Ofelia Torres was 16 years old.
She was undergoing treatment for stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma — a rare and aggressive cancer that develops in skeletal muscle — when federal immigration agents detained her father outside a Home Depot in Chicago.
Her name should never have been in headlines about immigration enforcement.
And yet it was.
