Posted on 11/05/2025 11:36:46 PM PST by Morgana
The female migrant who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers at Salt Lake City airport did not know she had a long-serving deportation order, according to a lawyer working on her case.
Marta Brizeyda Renderos Leiva, 39, was arrested by plain-clothed agents at the Utah travel hub last Wednesday.
Footage of her arrest showed the wailing mother-of-four imploring, 'Help me, I have my papers' as she was taken into custody by ICE.
Now, her legal team has claimed Leiva 'did not know' that a judge had placed a removal order against her.
'She is a woman who had no idea there was a removal order against her,' Andy Armstrong, an attorney involved in Leiva's case, told FOX 13.
He said a court notice had been sent to an address that Leiva did not reside at.
What's more, Leiva believes it was sent to the notary who helped with immigration paperwork.
Armstrong added: 'She went to this individual to help her fill out the forms, as many immigrants do - go to these services - and we believe that it was his address that was on the form as his address.'
In a statement, ICE identified Leiva as being in the country illegally and said she was from El Salvador, having entered the US in 2007.
Leiva was targeted in what a statement referred to as an 'enforcement operation' after she had been given a final order of removal in absentia in February 2020.
Armstrong said Leiva had a valid work permit that had been approved in 2024 and ran until 2029 and believed she was in possession of all the required documents prior to her arrest.
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So, are her four “anchor babies” being deported along with her? The article didn’t say.
IF TRUE that she had a removal order in 2020 and a work permit issued in 2024, the government is not properly checking records
The biden years.
why would she qualify for a work permit?
“He said a court notice had been sent to an address that Leiva did not reside at.”
“What’s more, Leiva believes it was sent to the notary who helped with immigration paperwork.”
What a coincidence, she was yelling the same thing as the illegal in this Washington Post propaganda by Arelis R. Hernández:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4350942/posts
Armed ICE officers chase teacher into preschool in Chicago
The Washington Post ^ | 11/05/2025 4:54 p.m. EST | Arelis R. Hernández
. . .The agents dragged the woman outside as she yelled, “Tengo papeles!” or “I have papers.”. . .
DHS responded to WaPo on X as follows:
Homeland Security
@DHSgov
“How do you people sleep at night after lying all day to the American people like this?
ICE law enforcement did NOT target a daycare and were only at this location because the female illegal alien fled inside.
Here is the real story:
Officers attempted to conduct a targeted traffic stop of this female illegal alien from Colombia.
Officers attempted to pull over this vehicle, which was registered to a female illegal alien, with sirens and emergency lights, but the male driver refused to pull the vehicle over.
Law enforcement pursued the vehicle before the assailant sped into a shopping plaza where he and the female passenger fled the vehicle. They ran into a daycare and attempted to barricade themselves inside the daycare—recklessly endangering the children inside.
The illegal alien female was arrested inside a vestibule, not in the school. Upon arrest, she lied about her identity.
The vehicle is registered to in her name, though she claims that she didn’t know the man who was driving her car and just picked him up from a bus stop.
Facts including criminality and information on the male assailant are forthcoming and we will update the public with more information as soon as it becomes available.”
“He said a court notice had been sent to an address that Leiva did not reside at.”
Typo? Or did the wailer at one time give an improper address as her’s?
What address did she give on the paperwork for the work permit?
Was it mailed to her or did she pick it up in person?
/rhetorical questions
And how did they know she would be at the airport? Did they know where the house was of someone who told them where she was? Someone intimate with her everyday plans, for sure.
A VERY timely arrest, indeed.
Note that there is no mention of her entering the country on a visa, legally.
“she was from El Salvador, having entered the US in 2007.”
It just says she entered in 2007.
That a corrupt Biden admin gave her papers many years after her “entry” means they and the Obama admin weren’t enforcing the law to begin with to determine if she was here illegally to begin with. And, she should have been prevented from getting in when Bush was president if she entered illegally, which most likely, she did.
The post 9/11 "reforms" by the Shrub were directed at creating an efficient intelligence network within the US, not at keeping illegal immigrants and terrorists out.
“ the government is not properly checking records”
Welcome to the party, pal
Exactly.
She will have a requirement to update her address constantly as a condition of her parole in the US which she obviously did not do. Its her job. Not the Government’s.
Your papers...are NOT in order!
OR was the person sending out notices to wrong addresses doing it on purpose?
The rot is deep. Years ago, I remember hearing of them getting SNAP even though they didn’t knowingly qualify, compliments of the gov’t.
A burgeoning area of the unauthorized practice of law is through Notaries Public.
In Latin countries Notarios are big deals, higher up the legal food chain than lawyers.
So Hispanics go to Notaries in the US for “legal services.”
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