“Flagrant Violation”: Judge Orders Return of Mother Deported Despite DACA
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A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to return a Sacramento mother deported despite holding DACA protection.
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DACA holders and their families now have judicial recourse against deportations, establishing legal precedent protecting immigrants with active protection status.
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A federal judge in California on Monday ordered the Trump administration to return Sacramento mother Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez to the United States within seven days, ruling her February deportation to Mexico violated her constitutional rights and DACA protections. Estrada Juarez, who had held active DACA status since 2013 and was in the middle of a green card interview when detained, was deported within 24 hours based on a decades-old 1998 removal order that her lawyer argues was never properly finalized. Judge Dena Coggins found the deportation occurred in "flagrant violation" of regulatory protections and rejected the Trump administration's argument that the court lacked jurisdiction over the case. The judge determined Estrada Juarez's removal constituted an "extreme circumstance" warranting judicial intervention, citing the severe emotional and financial harm to her daughter, an only child who said she may have to leave their shared home without her mother's income. Estrada Juarez's lawyer, Stacy Tolchin, has also asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to review the reinstatement of the removal order and filed a motion with USCIS to reconsider the green card denial.
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A federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the deportee's return to the United States.
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