Getting arrested for civil disobedience wasn’t exactly what Robin Seegers expected when the Georgetown Law student landed a summer internship with CASA de Maryland, working on immigration cases.

Yet there she was in handcuffs in front of the White House on June 1, alongside 19 other activists protesting the deportation of Salvadorean mother Liliana Cruz Mendez, who would soon be deported because of a 2014 driving offense.