Senators demand return of deported California DACA recipient
Los Angeles Times • • nation
Key Points:
- Senators Alex Padilla and Dick Durbin have urged the Department of Homeland Security to return Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez, a California woman with active DACA protection who was deported a day after her green card interview despite no criminal history.
- Estrada Juarez, who lived in California for 27 years, was detained at her green card interview and forcibly signed a deportation form; she was deported to Mexico within 24 hours, contradicting DACA’s intended protections.
- Conflicting data from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem about the number of detained and deported DACA recipients has raised concerns among lawmakers, highlighting discrepancies in the agency’s reporting.
- Homeland Security justified Estrada Juarez’s deportation by citing a
