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Deportation: Former cleaner for Tory ex-immigration minister Mark Harper dragged out of daughter's wedding
Colombian national Isabella Acevedo asks to be treated with same leniency as Harper following reshuffle promotion as Disabled People's Minister

A Tory MP’s former cleaner faces deportation today after being dragged out of her teenage daughter’s wedding and arrested by immigration officers.

Colombian Isabella Acevedo, who until February was illegally employed for seven years by former immigration minister Mark Harper, has been held at Yarl’s Wood detention centre since Friday.

Her brother was also arrested during the “vindictive” raid.

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