Is it possible to resist deportations in the age of Trump?

The case of one woman who was suddenly taken away from her family illustrates the harsh mood in the US — but has also galvanised resistance to deportations, writes Marcela Valdes.

On Monday, February 6, two days before Guadalupe García Aguilar made headlines as the first person deported under US president Donald Trump’s new executive orders on immigration, she and her family drove to the modest stucco offices of Puente, an organisation that represents undocumented immigrants.

It was a postcard day: warm and dry, hovering around 21°C, the kind of winter afternoon that had long ago turned Phoenix into a magnet for American retirees and the younger, mostly Latin American immigrants who mulch their gardens and build their homes.