The Pittsburgh, Kansas family alleges that her mother was arrested in Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) at a US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) hearing in a pending petition to make her a legally recognized permanent resident. Her husband, a US citizen, filed a petition. On Wednesday, the family said her mother was told she had an outstanding final order to deport her.
Rosmery Alvarado, an illegal foreign woman from Guatemala, has been held in an ice detention center for several hours from her family home. According to her daughter, Carina Moran, she is facing an imminent removal into Guatemala. According to current immigration law, the existence of an order makes the route of becoming a legally recognized permanent resident of Alvarado very, if not impossible, very difficult.
On FOX4 News ReportMoran says the family’s lawyers advised them that they had existing final removal orders that stemmed from Alvarado’s failure to appear at a scheduled deportation hearing when he was a minor.
Alvarado’s daughter, Carina, has launched a fundraiser on the popular GoFundMe website and hopes to raise funds to create an international arrangement to send Alvarado’s belongings to Guatemala if necessary. According to Moran, fundraisers are also trying to support medical expenses.
In the post, Moran said, “I am the daughter of two immigrants, my father was born in El Salvador and Guatemala. My father recently became a US citizen after 10 years of hard work and multiple long drives to interviews. Unfortunately, we lied and our family was torn apart.”
Moran says she was sitting outside the hearing and an hour later she watched her father and family lawyer leave without her mother. She continues to provide details of her father’s account of what happened in the interview, saying, “My father was asked to leave where my mother was sitting. Second he did, she was taken into custody by two immigrants.
Moran says the family has raised legal action to stop the removal of Alvarado.
Randy Clark He is a 32-year veteran of the US Border Patrol. Before retiring, he served as Chief of Law Enforcement Business and oversaw the operations of nine Border Patrol Bureaus in Del Rio, Texas. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @randyclarkbbtx.
