A teen and her family fled torture in Congo to resettle in Maine, but then ICE showed up

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Olivia Andre, 19, had been in ICE detention for weeks when she heard her sister calling her name. Her family was being held in a separate section of the same facility, she soon learned.
A portrait of a woman and her two teenage children seated at a wooden dining table.
Carine Mbizi and two of her children, Joel, left, and Estefania, right, resettled in Maine from the Democratic Republic of Congo.Brianna Soukup for NBC News

Olivia Andre thought the traumas were behind her. She and her family escaped repression and torture in the Democratic Republic of Congo and suffered the tragic death of her 8-year-old brother on their journey to America in 2022. They spent three years trying to rebuild their lives in Maine. Then ICE arrested the family in November, tearing them apart again with Andre, now 19, detained separately as an adult.

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