Here’s yet another glaring example of this administration’s general incompetence. First, the Department of Homeland Security finally admitted that Dreamer Juan Manuel Montes did indeed have active DACA status when he was swept up and deported to Mexico in February, debunking their own spokesperson’s lie from this week that it had expired. Now, the Charlotte Observer reports that ICE told honor roll college student Sthefany Flores, a North Carolina Dreamer with active DACA status, to prepare for deportation in what eventually turned out to be the federal government’s own screw-up:
When the ICE letter first arrived, Flores thought it was an April Fool’s Day joke. Then the realization sank in. “I just sat down,” she said. “I could hear my heart in my ears, and I thought, ‘This is not possible.’ ”
Nonetheless, she was instructed to show up Wednesday at ICE offices in Charlotte with no more than 40 pounds of luggage and her passport. She says she tried to get an explanation from Homeland Security officials on why she faced possible deportation but found no one to tell her what’s going on.
Sthefany’s DACA renewal, which is valid for two years, had been approved by the federal government weeks before on March 15. Left with no answers and in fear of facing imminent deportation to a country she hadn’t called home for most of her life, “Flores’ community and school rallied to her cause.”
Byron Martinez, director of operations for Unidos We Stand, a Gastonia-based nonprofit for immigration rights, wrote Gov. Roy Cooper, Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, along with other elected officials asking them to intervene. Even Gardner-Webb [University] president Frank Bonner had cleared his Wednesday schedule to appear at the ICE meeting in her behalf.
“What does deporting Ms. Flores say about our values as Americans?” Martinez said in his letter. “(She) is the epitome of what a DACA student should be ... A young life hangs in the balance.”
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