California mother with DACA, 27 yrs in US and legal permission to live in US deported in under 24 hours

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article314793811.html

Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez confidently walked to her green card appointment in downtown Sacramento on Wednesday morning. She had seen the reports of other immigrants arrested at similar check-ins. Estrada Juarez believed her case would be different.

In her hands, she carried a white binder chronicling 27 years in California — her high school diploma, years of tax filings, vaccine records and paperwork showing she had repeatedly obtained federal permission to remain in the country.

But the appointment meant to secure her American future instead ended it. Federal agents arrested her less than one hour after she arrived in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Sacramento field office. By the next morning, she was in Mexico.

“Basically, my life was ended,” Estrada Juarez, 42, told The Sacramento Bee. “I have to reinvent myself in a country that, even though it’s mine, I don’t know.”

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“It sounds like this poor woman was basically railroaded out of the country in the dead of night with barely a whimper,” said Kevin Johnson, the former dean of UC Davis’ School of Law and a legal leader in immigration law.