EUA: hospedeira "dreamer" detida depois do seu avião ir e voltar do México

Airline Assured Flight Attendant She’d Be Safe to Fly to Mexico. When She Returned, ICE Detained Her ():

Selene Saavedra Roman, 28, a resident of College Station, Texas, had been a crew member for Phoenix-based Mesa Airlines for less than a month in February when she was scheduled for a flight to Mexico out of Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), even though she’d already made it clear that she didn’t want to work any flights outside the US. (...)

Saavedra immediately told her supervisors she was worried — she was, after all, a so-called Dreamer, one of an estimated 700,000 immigrants to the US who fall under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy. Saavedra came illegally to the US from Peru when she was 3 years old, grew up in Dallas, went to college in Texas, and married a US citizen. She has a Social Security number and pays taxes, and was halfway through the process of getting her official citizenship. Leaving the country, she feared, could jeopardize her DACA status.

But Mesa Airlines insisted she was legally all right to fly to Mexico and back. (...)

Saavedra flew to Mexico out of Houston on February 12, using a Peruvian passport, then got on a return flight for an immediate turnaround. It was the first time she’d left the States since she’d entered it as a child. When she went through customs, officials told her her paperwork wasn’t in order and pulled her aside.

She ended up being held at the Houston airport for 24 hours, then Immigrations and Customs Enforcement transferred her to a privately run immigration detention facility in Conroe, Texas, one of several that have sprouted up in the past couple of years to cope with the administration’s restrictive border policies. (...)

Worse, Arroyo said that she learned recently that ICE has actively pushed to revoke Saavedra’s DACA status and deport her to Peru. Saavedra’s scheduled for an April 4 hearing where she will have to convince a federal immigration judge that she shouldn’t be sent to a country she hasn’t seen since she was a toddler.

Esta história, aliás faz duvidar do que Bryan Caplan escrevia há um ano (A Deal on Immigration is Most Unwise), onde argumentava que dificilmente "dreamers" seriam deportados.