{"id":256649,"date":"2025-11-02T02:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256649\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T02:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T02:14:18","slug":"trump-golf-club-worker-mistakenly-deported-to-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256649\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump golf club worker mistakenly deported to Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

A longtime worker at one of Donald Trump<\/a>‘s golf clubs was accidentally deported to Mexico<\/a> after US immigration officers placed him on the wrong plane.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Federal officials have since admitted the blunder violated standard deportation procedure and likely broke the law.<\/p>\n

Alejandro Juarez, 39, a father-of-four who spent more than a decade working at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester County, New York, was supposed to be transferred to a detention facility in Arizona<\/a> last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Instead, ICE officers shackled him, flew him to Texas<\/a>, and forced him to cross a bridge into Mexico – all before he ever appeared before an immigration judge.<\/p>\n

After being unshackled, he was handed a bag with his belongings and made to walk over the bridge the Mexico.<\/p>\n

‘It was very hard, deported without giving me an opportunity to defend my case,’ he said.\u00a0‘And that’s how my journey in the United States ended,’ Juarez said in a phone interview from Puebla, Mexico.<\/p>\n

Officials at the Department of Homeland Security later conceded that Juarez had been ‘removed to Mexico early because he was put on the incorrect transport.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mistake left his wife and four American-born children behind in New York and exposed procedural lapses within an agency under renewed pressure from the Trump administration to speed up deportations.<\/p>\n

\"Alejandro <\/p>\n

Alejandro Juarez, 39, a father of four and\u00a0longtime worker at one of Donald Trump’s golf clubs was accidentally deported to Mexico after immigration officers placed him on the wrong plane<\/p>\n

\"Juarez <\/p>\n

Juarez spent over a decade working at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, New York<\/p>\n

Internal ICE emails reviewed by The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0show officials scrambling to locate Juarez after realizing he had been placed on the wrong flight.<\/p>\n

Juarez’s case is an example of how the overburdened immigration system, rushing to meet political demands, can tear families apart in minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE’s parent agency, initially denied that Juarez had been deported claiming he was simply detained because of a 2022 DUI conviction. Only later did the agency acknowledge its error.<\/p>\n

A DHS spokesperson explained how ICE is now arranging Juarez’s return to the United States to resume formal deportation proceedings.<\/p>\n

Juarez’s wife, Mar\u00eda Priego, now works double shifts as a maid in Westchester County, New York, trying to support their four children alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘We’re sad and devastated for what my husband has gone through,’ she said. ‘We depended a lot on him and are waiting for any good news from our lawyer.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Their eldest son, 20, serves in the US Marine Corps. Their younger children, ages 10, 12, and 16, were born in America.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Juarez's <\/p>\n

Juarez’s eldest son, 20, serves in the US Marine Corps. Their younger children, ages 10, 12, and 16, were born in America. He is seen here along with his wife<\/p>\n

\"Juarez <\/p>\n

Juarez is pictured with other family members now he is back in\u00a0Puebla, Mexico<\/p>\n

‘My 10- and 12-year-old children ask me on the phone, ‘When are you returning, Papi?’ ‘ Juarez said. ‘We can’t be without you.’<\/p>\n

Juarez worked for more than a decade at Trump National Golf Club Westchester, serving food and tending grounds before being fired in 2019 when the Trump Organization purged undocumented employees amid scrutiny of its hiring practices<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He continued to build a quiet life in Yorktown, working two jobs, one at a hotel and another maintaining private estates in order to support his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But his 2022 arrest for driving while intoxicated, with two of his children in the car, brought him to ICE’s attention. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and received three years’ probation.<\/p>\n

That offense, ICE argued, made him a ‘public safety threat.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet Juarez continued to comply with every scheduled check-in at ICE’s Manhattan offices until September 15, when agents suddenly detained him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His wife, waiting in their car outside 26 Federal Plaza, had no idea he had been taken away.<\/p>\n

Juarez’s attorney, An\u00edbal Romero, learned of his client’s deportation only when Juarez called him from Mexico five days later.<\/p>\n

‘I’m in Mexico,’ Juarez told him.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘This is unprecedented in my 20 years of practice – an individual being removed without any hearing, leaving even the court and DHS confused,’ Romero said.<\/p>\n

\"Several <\/p>\n

Several workers at the Trump property have been deported over the years\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Kilmar <\/p>\n

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported along with thousands of other illegal immigrants in March as part of Trump’s crackdown on border security\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Abrego <\/p>\n

Abrego Garcia is seen hugging his wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura at the ICE office in Baltimore\u00a0<\/p>\n

At Juarez\u2019s scheduled immigration hearing in New York, Romero told the judge that his client had already been expelled. Even ICE\u2019s lawyer admitted he didn\u2019t know where Juarez was.<\/p>\n

The case has amplified criticism of ICE\u2019s chaotic internal processes under the renewed Trump administration push to accelerate deportations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Similar blunders have surfaced before: in one case earlier this year, officials mistakenly deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garc\u00eda to an El Salvadoran prison; in 2022, a man was sent to Guatemala without a final removal order.<\/a><\/p>\n

The DHS civil-rights office previously urged ICE to create a process for rectifying wrongful deportations, but advocates say little has changed.<\/p>\n

For now, Juarez remains more than 2,500 miles away in Mexico, banished by bureaucracy and seemingly stuck there after an error ICE has reluctantly admitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A longtime worker at one of Donald Trump‘s golf clubs was accidentally deported to Mexico after US immigration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,100,755,151397,2184,1025,44,85,1055],"class_list":{"0":"post-256649","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-ice-t","13":"tag-mexico","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}