Rhode Island resident Lilian Calderon, a wife and mother of two young children, was released this week after a month in federal detention. Thirty years old now, Calderon came to America from Guatemala as a three-year-old, and in January she was seized by ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Her story made national headlines as Congress once again tackles the hot-button issue of immigration.

Gabriela Domenzain, who heads the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University, was one of the leading people who fought very publicly for Calderon’s release. Domenzain -- whose parents are both immigrant doctors from Mexico, and who has worked in Washington, on the Arizona-Mexico border, and in the national media -- talked about Calderon’s case and the broader issues of immigration during this weekend’s broadcasts of Story in the Public Square.

Her insights could not be more timely as America debates who should come to this country -- and who, born abroad, should stay.

This is an audio version of a broadcast of the Story in the Public Square TV and Sirius/XM Satellite radio program, recorded in the studios of Rhode Island PBS and hosted by me, G. Wayne Miller, and Jim Ludes of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University. Story in the Public Square is a partnership of the Pell Center and The Providence Journal. For more, visit providencejournal.com orpellcenter.org