'I don’t want to be taken away from my mom,' said Laura Maradiaga, 11, who was given an order to be deported back to El Salvador without her mother or sister.
Laura Maradiaga, left, with family members in the park. By Timothy Bella Timothy Bella Deputy editor for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow April 12 at 7:22 AM Unlike her time growing up in El Salvador, Laura Maradiaga is not paralyzed with the constant fear of murder in Houston. The 11-year-old can walk to Fondren Middle School to study multiplication tables and English or relax with her mom, older sister and Lalo, the family dog, at the playground near their apartment.
The child’s solo deportation is all due to a clerical error, her attorneys argue, in part caused when the government shutdown earlier this year forced the court to reschedule her family’s court dates. Posted by KHOU 11 News on Thursday, April 11, 2019 Laura’s case comes as a flood of Central American migrants make their way to the border to seek asylum, while the Trump administration fights, so far unsuccessfully in court, to force those pursuing asylum to wait in Mexico.
Judge Clarease Rankin Yates of the Houston Immigration Court had marked the girl as “not present” at the March 12 hearing. Neither Laura’s mother nor sister are listed on the order, which is signed by Yates. “No good cause was given for Respondent’s failure to appear at the hearing,” the order reads. “Therefore, the Respondent has abandoned any and all forms of relief from removal.”
“I hope the judge can see it was a clear mistake on behalf of the court,” Mintz said. “I don’t think it was ill-intentioned, but it shows how overworked these courts are.”A request for comment to the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the branch of the Justice Department that handled her case, was not returned late Thursday.
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