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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
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Louise Bonquin

Woman Begs to Be Deported Amid Trump's Immigration Crackdown — But ICE Refuses to Let Her Go

As the Trump administration's national immigration crackdown intensifies, with hundreds of thousands of deportations already carried out, one bizarre case has emerged that seems to defy the very logic of the policy.

A Lithuanian national who is literally begging the government to deport her remains in detention as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would not let her go. In the case of Tatjana Vesiolko, 38, her pleas to be deported are continuously being ignored while she remains locked up in an ICE detention facility - reportedly for 11 months now. Her American fiancé, Al Dallasta, says he can't understand the delay. 'She's essentially lost a year of her life for what?' he lamented. 'She's falling apart in there.'

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