text: Apparently, there is no process for Tania to become a citizen.  She has a good immigration lawyer and has been reporting to ICE regularly since 2008, but she is still a "deportable alien."
  
  Aliens who commit crimes are regularly deported.  During the Obama administration, for instance, more than 2 million criminal aliens were deported.
  
  There are about 20,000 "deportable aliens" living in Hawai`i today, mostly from the Philippines and Japan.  Many of them live with their US families.  Odds are some are living peacefully in your neighborhood.  As Tania's story shows, ICE is going after them, regardless of the calamity it brings for their US families.  Imagine her children growing up without their mother.