Tope Awe is a third year pharmacy student at the U-W Madison. She left her native Nigeria and came to this country with her family when she was three years old.
But, her family never obtained legal residency for her and now she is in custody in the Dodge County Jail.
Said her friend Nurilign Ahmed, “I feel like losing her would be like losing a very important person from the health care profession and U-W Madison school system.”