Los Angeles.- Defenders of migrants condemn this Saturday the deportation to Mexico of a survivor of the shooting in El Paso, (Texas), which was collaborating with federal authorities as a witness to the first actions of the handle, which ended up killing 22 people.
The Diocesan Services for Migrants and Refugees (DMRS) in El Paso reported that the migrant, identified only as Rosa to protect her identity, was arrested last Wednesday after a traffic stop because a light from her car was not working.
Pas police arrested her after discovering that the migrant had two pending summonses for another traffic stop in 2015.
The migrant, of Mexican origin, was transferred to the custody of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), which deported her this Friday to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
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Rosa and her sister were cooperating with investigators in the August 3, 2019 shooting case because they said they were in the Walmart parking lot where the massacre took place, and they were witnesses. of the shooter’s first attack before he enters the store.
Anna Hey, deputy director of DMRS, confirmed to local television station KTSM that “Rosa is a survivor of one of the most horrific events that has ever taken place in El Paso. She approached and presented herself so much to the police of the Step as to FBI officers to give a statement of what he saw on that fateful day. “
“The information she has was enough for the District Attorney’s Office to issue a certificate that she has been helpful in the investigation,” she added.
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In this regard, Laura Lynch, a lawyer at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), criticized the deportation of the Mexican woman on her Twitter account on Saturday, warning that “this decision amounts to a revictimization of this young woman, who only was presented to help build the case against the shooter in the racist attack“.
Lynch’s message was echoed by Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar, representing District 16 of Texas, and includes Paso neighborhoods.
“I am supporting the efforts of DMRS del Pas and I will do my best to bring Rosa home and fight to protect the victims and witnesses of the deportation,” the legislator stressed on her Twitter account.
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Just arrived at the White House, the president Joe Biden order a 100-day moratorium on deportations.
However, this Tuesday Judge Drew B. Tipton of the South Texas District Court temporarily blocked the measure in response to a lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who argues that the president acted on arbitrary form in imposing a moratorium.
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