Stop the Deportation of Lilian Cardona-Perez

by Kathy Grear 03/14/2017

Lilian received an Order of Removal in March 2011. As a person with no criminal record, who had lived and worked in the United States for most of her life, the previous Administration’s Policy was to consider her a low priority for deportation.  Therefore she was granted an Order of Supervision, which permitted her to stay in the U.S. and receive a work permit each year.

The Trump Administration, however, with its anti-Latino rhetoric and policies, has promoted an aggressive new campaign by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement to target the most vulnerable Latino immigrants. The Trump policy leaves no room and no time for cooler heads to review cases that are abruptly scheduled for deportation.

Trump has repeatedly promised he will not separate families. But the aggressive ICE campaign, in this case, turns these promises to dust, while terrorizing hard-working Latino families with the threat of separation. In February 2017, ICE notified Ms. Lilian with an Order of Removal. The heartless way his policies have been applied in Ms. Cardona-Perez case, and hundreds of others, will take a mother and newborn child thousands of miles away from her support network and her children, four of whom are under 13 years old.

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