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Minerva puts a sock under the ankle bracelet she received from ICE to avoid chafing. She was forced to wear the ankle bracelet after her meeting with ICE officials on Nov. 15, 2017. It tracks her location and makes sure she doesn’t leave the three states she is allowed to be in: North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. “I’m just really happy to be free,” Garcia said. “I’m kind of disappointed as well because I wasn’t expecting to get something like that (the monitoring device on her ankle). I’m not going anywhere.”