An Ecuadorian mother, detained last week by ICE agents along with two of her children after a routine hearing in immigration court in New York, was deported Tuesday along with her six-year-old daughter, according to local media.
Martha and her daughter, the youngest immigrant detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in New York, had been sent to Dilley, Texas, while her 19-year-old son Manuel, a recent high school graduate, went to Delaney Hall Detention Center in New Jersey.
State Assemblywoman Catalina Cruz confirmed the deportation of the mother and her daughter, who is already the fourth public school student arrested for immigration reasons, according to the newspaper ‘The City’.
Martha’s 21-year-old son, who was left in charge of his 16-year-old brother, told CBS that on the day of the arrests his mother was afraid to attend the immigration court date, where it has become routine for ICE to arrest immigrants and then detain them in conditions that have been denounced as “inhumane and unsanitary”.
Immigrants detained there, on the tenth floor of the Federal Plaza in Manhattan, which houses several federal offices, filed a lawsuit against ICE for the conditions in which they are being held.
New York State Governor Kathy Hochul called the latest ICE action “cruel and unjust.
“President Trump promised to target only ‘the worst of the worst. “If a seven-year-old girl is who President Trump considers ‘the worst of the worst,’ then the promise was a lie from the start,” Hochul claimed Tuesday, according to ‘The City.’
In June and July, the ICE office in New York arrested 48 children, 32 of whom had already been deported, according to ICE data cited by its official website, according to information from EFE.
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