BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A Baton Rouge family is together again after its matriarch was released from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility this month. Her immigration attorney said the ultimate goal is citizenship.

"A green card for her, and then in three years she can naturalize after she gets her green card—become a citizen," said Carey Holliday, the family's immigration attorney.

Holliday was formerly an immigration judge, and he said the bureaucratic immigration system "has cracks." He said his son is the Clouatres' neighbors, and he agreed to take on their case. Since that time, he said he's lost sleep and spent countless hours trying to right what he calls a clear-cut wrong.

"She fell through the cracks," Holliday said.

Holliday reflected on Paola Clo

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