A witness to the El Paso shooting, one of the first deportees in the Biden era

MADRID, 31 One. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Several migrant advocates from El Paso (Texas) have denounced this Saturday the deportation to Mexico of a witness to the shooting that took place in the city on August 3, 2019 after her arrest for a traffic offense.

The deportee, of Mexican origin, was detained in El Paso by the police because one of the lights on her vehicle did not work. When verifying that the woman had another traffic fine pending, she was transferred to the United States Immigration and Customs Control Service, which deported her this Friday to Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), according to the Mexican newspaper ‘El Universal’.

The woman had actively collaborated with the police and had offered to testify in the process against the white supremacist who killed 23 people in this city near the Mexican border in August 2019.

This event occurred just when the United States Department of Homeland Security announced two weeks ago that it had halted the deportations of immigrants for a hundred days in order to review the country’s immigration policies.

Biden’s move is framed within the reversal of the Trump-era immigration policies that divide the country. However, a Texas judge temporarily blocked the 100-day moratorium at the request of that state’s Republican prosecutor, Ken Paxton.

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