An lawyer representing the spouse of an active-duty U.S. Military sergeant mentioned she was instructed Wednesday she could be launched from immigration detention after greater than every week in custody — however as an alternative she’s going through deportation to Mexico.
Deisy Fidelina Rivera Ortega was taken into custody April 14 in El Paso whereas attending a routine immigration interview associated to a “Parole in Place” utility — a program that may permit undocumented members of the family of U.S. navy personnel to stay within the nation legally.
On Wednesday afternoon, her authorized group mentioned they acquired data that Rivera Ortega could be launched.
The spouse of an active-duty U.S. Military sergeant with 27 years of service is going through potential deportation to a 3rd nation after being detained throughout a routine immigration interview final week.
Matthew Kozik
“Deisy was elated and knowledgeable us that she had been directed by immigration officers to collect her belongings, as she was to be launched right now,” Matthew Kozik instructed ABC Information.
However after contacting officers with the Division of Homeland Safety to confirm particulars, Kozik mentioned he was instructed Rivera Ortega wouldn’t be launched and would as an alternative be deported to Mexico.
“DHS/ICE denied that she was being launched again into the US, however that Ms. Rivera-Ortega was knowledgeable that she could be launched, however that her launch was deported to Mexico,” Kozik added.
In response to a request for remark, DHS didn’t handle the lawyer’s allegations.
As a substitute the company launched a press release studying: “On April 14, ICE arrested Deisy Fidelina Rivera-Ortega, a legal unlawful alien from El Salvador. She was beforehand convicted for unlawful entry—a federal offense. Rivera-Ortega entered the U.S. in 2016 close to Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and was launched on bond. She acquired full due course of, and an immigration decide issued her a last order of removing on December 12, 2019. Work authorization doesn’t confer any authorized standing to be within the nation. Rivera-Ortega stays in ICE custody pending removing.”
Rivera Ortega — who at present works for IHG Military Lodges at Fort Bliss — has a sound work allow by 2030 and was beforehand granted withholding of removing from her residence nation, El Salvador, in keeping with paperwork reviewed by ABC Information.
Kozik instructed ABC Information his shopper is entitled to a reputable worry interview, a screening carried out by a federal officer for people who categorical worry of deportation to sure international locations. He additionally filed a habeas petition final week asking a decide to order Rivera Ortega’s launch.
“We’re getting ready a writ of mandamus to file with the fifth Circuit, requiring the court docket to take motion,” he mentioned.
Rivera Ortega is married to Sgt. 1st Class Jose Serrano, a U.S. Military sergeant stationed at Fort Bliss, who has been deployed to Afghanistan 3 times. He instructed ABC Information earlier this week that he and his spouse have been “doing all the pieces by the e-book.”
“She goes to work or to church,” Serrano mentioned. “That is the lifetime of my spouse, Daisy.”
Serrano instructed ABC Information he has been seeing a physician for post-traumatic stress dysfunction and had been steady till his spouse was detained final week.
“I am unable to sleep even with the remedy, I am unable to even learn,” he instructed ABC Information. “It is tremendous painful and annoying to not have the ability to do something.”
