Texas, United States.
Defenders of the immigrants condemn this weekend the deportation to Mexico of a survivorHe was born in shooting in El Paso, (Texas, USA), which was collaborating with federal authorities such as witnesses of the first actions of the door handle, who ended up killing a 22 people.
The Diocesan Services for Migrants and Refugees (DMRS) in the Step they reported that the immigrant, identified only as Rosa to protect her identity, she was arrested last Wednesday after a traffic stop because one light your car it didn’t work.
The police of the Step the to arrest after discovering that the migrant had two citations pending for another stop of traffic in 2015.
the immigrantand, of Mexican origin, was transferred to the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), That the deport on Friday a Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
key witness
Rosa and her sister were cooperating with the researchers in the case of the shooting on August 3, 2019 because they assured that they were in the Walmart parking lot where the massacre, and they were witnesses of the first attack of the shooter before this one enter the store.
Anna Hey, deputy director of DMRS, confirmed to local television station KTSM that “Rosa is a survive of one of the events more horrible which has never taken place in The Step. She approached and presented herself to both the Pas police and FBI officers to give a statement of what she saw on that fateful day. “
“The information he has was enough for the District Attorney ‘s Office to issue a certification that she has been useful in research“, He added.
In this regard, Laura Lynch lawyer for the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) criticized this Saturday on her Twitter account the deportation of the Mexican, warning that “this decision amounts to a revictimization of this young woman, who only came forward to help build the case against the shooter in the racist attack “.
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Lynch’s message was echoed by the Democratic congresswoman Verónica Escobar, Representing District 16 of Texas, and includes neighborhoods of the Pas.
“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 deportation “, The legislator stressed on her Twitter account.
He just got to the White Housea, the president Joe Biden order one 100-day moratorium on deportations.
However, on Tuesday Judge Drew B. Tipton of the Southern District Court of Texas temporarily blocked the measure in response to a lawsuit filed by the attorney general Texas, the Republican Ken Paxton, Who argues that the president acted arbitrarily in imposing the moratorium. EFE