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LOS ANGELES.- Immigrant advocates on Saturday condemned the deportation to Mexico of a survivor of the shooting in El Paso, Texas, who was collaborating with federal authorities as a witness to the first actions of the shooter, which ended up killing 22 people.
The Diocesan Services for Migrants and Refugees (DMRS) in El Paso denounced that the immigrant, identified only as Rosa to protect her identity, was detained last Wednesday after a traffic stop because a light on her car did not work.
El Paso police arrested her after discovering that the migrant had two outstanding citations for another traffic stop in 2015.
The immigrant, 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.
Rosa and her sister were cooperating with investigators in the case of the August 3, 2019 shooting because they assured that they were in the parking lot of the Walmart where the massacre took place, and they witnessed the first attack by the shooter before he entered the street. store.
Anna Hey, Deputy Director of DMRS, confirmed to local broadcaster KTSM that “Rosa is a survivor of one of the most horrific events to ever take place in El Paso. She came up and introduced herself to both El Paso police and FBI officers to give a statement of what he saw on that fateful day. “
“The information she has was sufficient for the District Attorney’s Office to issue a certification that she has been helpful in the investigation,” he added.
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In this sense, Laura Lynch, a lawyer from 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 re-victimization of this young woman, who only came forward to help build The case against the shooter in the racist attack “.
Lynch’s message was picked up by Democratic Congresswoman Verónica Escobar, who represents District 16 in Texas, and includes neighborhoods in El Paso.
“I am supporting the efforts of the DMRS of El Paso and will do everything possible to bring Rosa home and fight to protect the victims and witnesses of the deportation,” the legislator stressed on her Twitter account.
As soon as he reached the White House, President Joe Biden ordered a 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 led by the Texas Attorney General, Republican Ken Paxton, who argues that the president acted arbitrarily by impose the moratorium.
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