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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(14,287 posts)
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:20 AM Feb 24

California mother with DACA, 27 yrs in US and legal permission to live in US deported in under 24 hours

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article314793811.html

Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez confidently walked to her green card appointment in downtown Sacramento on Wednesday morning. She had seen the reports of other immigrants arrested at similar check-ins. Estrada Juarez believed her case would be different.

In her hands, she carried a white binder chronicling 27 years in California — her high school diploma, years of tax filings, vaccine records and paperwork showing she had repeatedly obtained federal permission to remain in the country.

But the appointment meant to secure her American future instead ended it. Federal agents arrested her less than one hour after she arrived in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Sacramento field office. By the next morning, she was in Mexico.

“Basically, my life was ended,” Estrada Juarez, 42, told The Sacramento Bee. “I have to reinvent myself in a country that, even though it’s mine, I don’t know.”

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article314793811.html#storylink=cpy

“It sounds like this poor woman was basically railroaded out of the country in the dead of night with barely a whimper,” said Kevin Johnson, the former dean of UC Davis’ School of Law and a legal leader in immigration law.

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California mother with DACA, 27 yrs in US and legal permission to live in US deported in under 24 hours (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Feb 24 OP
This is a campaign of terror aimed at "purifying" the nation of those who aren't white. patphil Feb 24 #1
K & R for exposure. SunSeeker Feb 24 #2
There's bonus money available mn9driver Feb 24 #3
Kick dalton99a Feb 24 #4
When this keeps happening I don't know why Figarosmom Feb 24 #5
No, you must appear LittleGirl Feb 24 #6

mn9driver

(4,848 posts)
3. There's bonus money available
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 12:59 AM
Feb 24

If they deport their victims within 7 days of arresting them. Following the constitution means losing money. This is an actual thing from what I’ve read.

Figarosmom

(12,049 posts)
5. When this keeps happening I don't know why
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 01:35 AM
Feb 24

They don't schedule these appointments at their homes or off premises. Set themselves up in other buildings while ICE stations themselves at their buildings. There must be some way they can do this without the immigrants going there. Can't it be done in on line meetings? Like they do for traffic court?

LittleGirl

(8,999 posts)
6. No, you must appear
Tue Feb 24, 2026, 03:18 AM
Feb 24

Every country has that requirement. Unfortunately. Crooked, cornered and cruel.

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