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A man who worked for a Trump Organization golf club in New York for more than a decade was deported to Mexico without the immigration hearing that he was entitled to, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
Alejandro Juarez, 39, was detained in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 15 after he showed up for a check-in at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office. As his wife waited for him outside, agents placed him in a cell before transferring him to a facility in Newark. Four days later, he was flown to Texas and forced to walk across a bridge over the Rio Grande to Mexico.
Juarez, who is undocumented and came to the U.S. in 2002, pleaded with his jailers, telling them he was never given a chance to contest his deportation.
“The federal agents told him that they were just following orders,” the Times report said. “They handed him a small bag with his phone, belt and documents, and forced him to cross the bridge. He thought of the wife and four children, whom he was leaving behind. After a five-minute walk back to his homeland, a highway sign greeted him: ‘Bienvenidos.’”
Juarez’s wife is currently trying to obtain a green card. He has four children, the eldest of whom is in the U.S. Marine Corps. All of his children are citizens.
Soon after deporting Juarez, immigration officials realized they had sent him to Texas by mistake. ICE meant to send him to a detention facility in Arizona, but instead, he was placed on a Texas-bound plane.
“And that’s how my journey in the United States ended,” Juarez told the Times, which said ICE initially could not figure out where it had sent him:
ICE officials raced to decipher his whereabouts, exchanging bewildered emails and contacting detention facilities to pinpoint his location, according to internal ICE documents obtained by The New York Times. It is unclear how many other immigrants like Mr. Juarez have been erroneously removed, in part because ICE has not in the past tracked such cases.
The Department of Homeland Security ultimately acknowledged the error, saying Juarez had been “removed to Mexico early because he was put on the incorrect transport.”
Juarez is currently in his hometown of Puebla helping his father tend the family farm.
Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for DHS, said the department is arranging for Juarez’s return so he can have a hearing, but that he will end up back in Mexico.
“The end result will be the same — he will not be able to remain in the U.S. and will be removed following the completion of his proceedings,” she said, referring to Juarez’s arrest in 2022 on charges of driving while intoxicated. He said he was sentenced to three years’ probation.
Juarez’s lawyer said he hopes his client will be able to secure what is called a “parole in place,” which would allow Juarez to stay in the U.S. because of the son’s military service.
Last week, the Trump administration initiated a purge of leadership at several ICE field offices amid growing frustration among some officials that the agency is not deporting people fast enough.
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