A family in Pittsburg, Kansas, is claiming their mother was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) hearing on a pending petition for her to become a Lawfully Admitted Permanent Resident. Her United States citizen husband filed the petition. On Wednesday, the family says they were told their mother has an outstanding final order of deportation.
The woman, Rosmery Alvarado, an illegal alien from Guatemala, is now being held in an ICE detention center several hours from the family home. According to her daughter, Carina Moran, she faces imminent removal to Guatemala. The existence of the order, according to current immigration law, makes Alvarado’s pathway to becoming a Lawfully Admitted Permanent Resident extremely difficult, if not
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