California Daca Recipient Sues Trump Administration Over Her Deportation

WASHINGTON — Attorneys for a Sacramento DACA recipient who was deported to Mexico past period person revenge a suit against nan national authorities seeking her contiguous return to nan U.S.

Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, 42, was detained Feb. 18 during a scheduled question and reply for her greenish paper application. She was deported to Mexico nan adjacent day, contempt having progressive deportation protection done nan Obama-era programme Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

According to nan lawsuit, Estrada Juarez, who worked arsenic a location head for Motel 6, was deported without being provided announcement of a lawful removal bid and without nan opportunity to conflict her lawsuit earlier an migration judge.

“Maria’s deportation was unlawful and violated basal principles of owed process,” said her lawyer Stacy Tolchin. “She had a valid DACA status, she appeared for her migration assignment arsenic instructed, and she should ne'er person been removed from nan country.”

Estrada Juarez’s lawsuit garnered nationalist attraction and outrage from members of Congress, including Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), aft being published successful nan Sacramento Bee.

According to her lawsuit, which was revenge Tuesday,it’s unclear whether an bid for her removal was ever issued. And moreover if 1 was issued, nan title says, “Petitioner could not legally beryllium removed from nan United States while successful DACA status.”

The title states that nan 1 archive Estrada Juarez received was a verification of her beingness removal from nan U.S. — not a removal order. The archive states that she is barred from returning to nan U.S. for 10 years because she had been ordered removed by an migration judge.

The suit calls that contention untrue — Estrada Juarez has ne'er been successful removal proceedings and has ne'er seen an migration judge. Her apprehension astatine her migration question and reply was nan first clip she learned she had been ordered removed successful 1998.

The Department of Homeland Security told The Times that a judge had ordered Estrada Juarez’s deportation successful 1998 “and she was removed from nan United States soon after.”

“She illegally re-entered nan U.S. — a felony,” Homeland Security said. “She was arrested and her last bid re-instated. ICE removed her from nan U.S. connected February 19, 2026.”

In 2014, Estrada Juarez went to Mexico utilizing a recreation support for DACA recipients known arsenic beforehand parole. She reentered nan U.S. legally connected Dec. 28, 2014.

According to nan lawsuit, “reinstatement of removal requires an forbidden reentry, and Petitioner’s past introduction was connected beforehand parole truthful would not autumn nether that ground.”

The suit includes an emergency petition for nan national authorities to facilitate Estrada Juarez’s return while nan lawsuit is pending.

Estrada Juarez applied for ineligible imperishable residency, aliases a greenish card, done her daughter, Damaris Bello, 22, a U.S. citizen. Her DACA position is valid until April 23, according to nan lawsuit, and she has a pending renewal application.

Estrada Juarez said nan U.S., wherever she lived for 27 years since her presence astatine property 15, is nan only location she has ever known.

“I followed nan rules and showed up to my migration assignment believing I was taking nan adjacent measurement toward stability,” she said. “Instead, I was taken distant from my girl and forced retired of nan state overnight.”