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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

DACA mom with US citizen daughter sues Trump administration after deportation to Mexico: ‘I followed the rules’

Maria de Jesus Estrada Juarez showed up for a green card appointment in Sacramento, California, and was deported the next day.

Estrada Juarez, who came to the United States when she was 15 years old, is among tens of thousands of immigrants with legal protections under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an Obama-era program that has shielded them from removal from the country.

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