(The Center Square) — It is not every day that people on opposite sides of the political spectrum join forces, but that is exactly what Lisa Everett and Brent Peak have done in Arizona.

Everett, the GOP chair for Arizona Legislative District 29, is working with Peak, a Democrat, to keep restaurant owner Kelly Yu from being deported to China. She's currently detained at the Eloy Detention Center in Eloy, Arizona.

“Kelly is a woman who came to the United States when she was 18 years old, 21 years old at the time,” Everett told The Center Square. “She was pregnant, fled China due to the one-child policy, and when she arrived, she immediately applied for asylum.”

Those processes were denied, but Yu has been in the court system still trying to become a U.S. citizen. Meanwhile, Yu is activ

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