\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMaria de Jes\u00fas Estrada Ju\u00e1rez, a Sacramento mother who was deported to Mexico after attending a scheduled green card appointment, has returned to the United States after more than a month away from her family.Estrada Ju\u00e1rez said the separation from her daughter was devastating.\u201cThere\u2019s nothing that I didn\u2019t miss more than my daughter,\u201d Estrada Ju\u00e1rez said. \u201cThis has been one of the most painful experiences of my life.\u201dEstrada Ju\u00e1rez was detained during a scheduled green card appointment and was deported last month. Her daughter said she has lived in the U.S. since she was 15 years old and is a DACA recipient navigating the immigration process.\u201cShe has built her life here with honesty and hard work,\u201d Damaris Bello, Maria’s daughter, said. \u201cBut instead of coming home, she was detained and deported in less than a day. We didn\u2019t get to say goodbye. We didn\u2019t understand what was happening.\u201dAccording to her attorney, Stacy Tolchin, Estrada Ju\u00e1rez was deported Feb. 19, based on a 1998 removal order that Tolchin argues was never finalized.\u201cWhen we got the paperwork, not only was there this reinstatement order, but also then that you look at the 1998 expedited removal order, and the supervisory box isn\u2019t checked,\u201d Tolchin said. \u201cAnd the regulations are clear that if the supervisor doesn\u2019t review the document, it\u2019s not a final order.\u201dA lawsuit challenging the deportation was filed on March 10. On March 23, a court ordered that Estrada Ju\u00e1rez be returned to the United States within seven days.\u201cThis is really a case where the law was not followed. It\u2019s not questionable,\u201d Tolchin said.Tolchin said Estrada Ju\u00e1rez is now back in DACA status and her renewal is pending. Her legal team hopes a judge will reconsider her green card application.Estrada Ju\u00e1rez said she wants to speak out on behalf of others facing similar immigration cases.\u201cWhat happened to me should not happen to anyone,\u201d she said. \u201cI am home now, and I will use my voice to make sure others are not silenced or taken away the way I was.\u201dSee more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tSACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Maria de Jes\u00fas Estrada Ju\u00e1rez, a Sacramento mother who was deported to Mexico after attending a scheduled green card appointment, has returned to the United States after more than a month away from her family.<\/p>\n
Estrada Ju\u00e1rez said the separation from her daughter was devastating.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing that I didn\u2019t miss more than my daughter,\u201d Estrada Ju\u00e1rez said. \u201cThis has been one of the most painful experiences of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Estrada Ju\u00e1rez was detained during a scheduled green card appointment and was deported last month. Her daughter said she has lived in the U.S. since she was 15 years old and is a DACA recipient navigating the immigration process.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has built her life here with honesty and hard work,\u201d Damaris Bello, Maria’s daughter, said. \u201cBut instead of coming home, she was detained and deported in less than a day. We didn\u2019t get to say goodbye. We didn\u2019t understand what was happening.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to her attorney, Stacy Tolchin, Estrada Ju\u00e1rez was deported Feb. 19, based on a 1998 removal order that Tolchin argues was never finalized.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we got the paperwork, not only was there this reinstatement order, but also then that you look at the 1998 expedited removal order, and the supervisory box isn\u2019t checked,\u201d Tolchin said. \u201cAnd the regulations are clear that if the supervisor doesn\u2019t review the document, it\u2019s not a final order.\u201d<\/p>\n
A lawsuit challenging the deportation was filed on March 10. On March 23, a court ordered that Estrada Ju\u00e1rez be returned to the United States within seven days.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is really a case where the law was not followed. It\u2019s not questionable,\u201d Tolchin said.<\/p>\n
Tolchin said Estrada Ju\u00e1rez is now back in DACA status and her renewal is pending. Her legal team hopes a judge will reconsider her green card application.<\/p>\n
Estrada Ju\u00e1rez said she wants to speak out on behalf of others facing similar immigration cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to me should not happen to anyone,\u201d she said. \u201cI am home now, and I will use my voice to make sure others are not silenced or taken away the way I was.\u201d<\/p>\n
See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maria de Jes\u00fas Estrada Ju\u00e1rez, a Sacramento mother who was deported to Mexico after attending a scheduled green…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[14852,45256,110102,9342,217,9533,23615,95634,90793,14,1637,2959,2457,3906,100,1594,96130,121,123,84375,122,106126,435],"class_list":{"0":"post-246301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-andres-valle","9":"tag-daca","10":"tag-daca-status","11":"tag-daughter","12":"tag-day","13":"tag-deportation","14":"tag-download","15":"tag-estrada-juarez","16":"tag-green-card-appointment","17":"tag-immigration","18":"tag-life","19":"tag-march","20":"tag-mexico","21":"tag-month","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-other","24":"tag-removal-order","25":"tag-sacramento","26":"tag-sacramento-headlines","27":"tag-sacramento-mother","28":"tag-sacramento-news","29":"tag-stacy-tolchin","30":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}