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Omara Gomez-Aviles, a working mother with three children, came to the US when she was 17 years old to escape the civil war and violence in her native country of El Salvador.
On Monday, she was behind bars awaiting deportation.
Mary Beth McDade reports from Santa Ana for the KTLA 5 News at 10.
