The Mexican immigrant's attorneys said he was deported to a dangerous border city and haven't heard from him in more than a week.
The same day a federal judge put the deportation of Hector García Mendoza on hold to accommodate his lawsuit against ICE, the agency deported him to a dangerous Mexican border town — and now, no one knows where he is.
The last time his attorneys spoke to García Mendoza was when he was still being held at the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey about a week-and-a-half ago. "That's why we started a very urgent search as soon as we found out he was in fact in Mexico," Lingat told BuzzFeed News."Hector experienced an extreme injustice through our immigration system and that injustice needs to be corrected."In a statement, ICE said García Mendoza had been ordered deported by an immigration judge on May 4 and had waived his right to appeal the decision.
Four days before being deported, García Mendoza had been a plaintiff in a case against ICE, DHS officials, and a CoreCivic warden. CoreCivic is one of the largest private prison company in the US, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, that operates the Elizabeth Detention Center under contract.
García Mendoza was born in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. As a child, he was abandoned by his parents and raised by his paternal grandparents. In 2010, García Mendoza fled"violent and unstable" conditions in Mexico and immigrated to New Jersey, according to court documents.
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