Texas, United States.
Defenders of immigrants they condemned the deportation to Mexico of a survivorHe is born in shooting in El Paso, (Texas, USA), who cooperated with federal authorities as witness of the first actions of the shooter, that ended in killing 22 people.
Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services (DMRS) at Step they denounced that the immigrant, identified only as Rosa To protect her identity, she was arrested on Wednesday after a traffic stop because a light of your car did not work.
The police of Step the to arrest after discovering that the migrant had two quotes awaiting a new stop traffic in 2015.
The immigrante, of Mexican descent, was transferred to the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE), Which deported Friday to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.
Crown witness
Rosa and her sister worked with the researchers in case of August 3, 2019 shooting because they assured they were in the Walmart parking lot where was the slaughter, and went witnesses of the shooter’s first strike before he is enter the store.
Anna Hey, deputy director of DMRS, confirmed to local broadcaster KTSM that “Rosa a survivor of one of the events most awful that ever happened in Step. She walked forward and introduced herself to both the El Paso Police and FBI agents to make a statement of what she saw on that fateful day. ‘
“The information you have was enough for the prosecutor to get a certification that she has been useful in researchhe added.
To that effect, Laura Lynch, a National Immigration Law Center (NILC) attorney, criticized on her Twitter account this Saturday. deportation of the Mexican, warning that “this decision amounts to a renewed victimization of this young woman, who came forward only to help build the cause against the shooter Bee racist attack. “
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Lynch’s message was taken over by the Democratic congressman Veronica Escobar, which represents and includes District 16 of Texas neighborhoods of El Paso.
“I support the efforts of El Paso DMRS and will do everything I can to bring Rosa home and fight for the victims and witnesses of deportation “, the legislator stressed on her Twitter account.
He barely reached the White Houseto the president Joe Biden ordered one 100 day moratorium on deportations.
However, on Tuesday Judge Drew B. Tipton of the Southern District Court of Texas temporarily blocked the measure following a lawsuit led by the attorney general of Texas, the Republican Ken Paxton, which states that the president acted arbitrarily by the moratorium. EFE