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Woman who sought asylum in US believed to be deported hours before judge blocked her removal, lawyers say
ABC News | Disney ^ | February 31, 2025 | ByPeter Charalambous and Armando Garcia

Posted on 02/21/2025 10:56:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

A federal judge temporarily blocked the deportation of eight asylum-seekers on Thursday, but the move was too late for one woman who her lawyers believe has already been deported by the Trump administration.

Despite seeking asylum in the United States to escape a violent former partner, according to her legal team, the woman was sent back to Ecuador this week -- just hours before a court blocked her deportation -- where her lawyers fear she might be killed.

"Plaintiff N.S. fled Ecuador to escape horrific violence and kidnapping by her former partner—a police officer who called her anti-indigenous slurs while raping her, beating her, and holding his gun to her head—and fears that he will kill her if she is removed," her lawyers wrote in a filing to the court, adding that the woman was held captive by her former partner.

Her rapid removal comes as immigrant advocates raise concerns that the Trump administration is hastily carrying out deportations of migrants while disregarding their asylum claims and in spite of active litigation to stop their removals.

According to court records, the woman entered the U.S. around Jan. 26 and asked for asylum after turning herself in to immigration officials. But as of Wednesday, court records show she had not received a "credible fear" interview, one of the first steps in determining eligibility for asylum.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: armandogarcia; border; ecuador; globalism; illegalaliens; invasion; obamajudge; obamastooge; petercharalambous; randolphmoss
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1 posted on 02/21/2025 10:56:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just send her back with a gun


2 posted on 02/21/2025 10:57:08 AM PST by struggle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

We were not the first safe country she came to. send her home. she can try again propperly.


3 posted on 02/21/2025 10:59:11 AM PST by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’m waiting for ABC to qualify her claims by including “without evidence”; like they do for everything Trump says...


4 posted on 02/21/2025 10:59:58 AM PST by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well done,ICE!


5 posted on 02/21/2025 11:00:12 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Damifino

Domestic violence???? This is an Ecuadorian law enforcement issue if anything. Not a US problem.


6 posted on 02/21/2025 11:02:01 AM PST by ARW
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A great idea

Super Fast Deportations. You get busted and put on a plane back within hours.


7 posted on 02/21/2025 11:04:16 AM PST by algore
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To: cableguymn

“We were not the first safe country she came to. send her home. she can try again propperly.”

Exactly. Not. Our. Problem.


8 posted on 02/21/2025 11:04:59 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She was here to live off of US taxpayers. Everyone has boyfriends and her boyfriend could be in the US or anywhere else in between.

We really need to do some changes to the asylum law. We need to limit the excuses that can be used.


9 posted on 02/21/2025 11:07:52 AM PST by dforest
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh no! What’s for lunch...


10 posted on 02/21/2025 11:08:17 AM PST by oil_dude
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The reward is basically permanent refugee status and US residency. All she had to do was spin a tale.
No one would ever flat out lie in that circumstance, would they? /s


11 posted on 02/21/2025 11:08:25 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I don’t know if what she says is true or not, but then, neither does ABC. However, I didn’t plaster the story everywhere without confirming it’s true, either. I have zero confidence in anything ABC says.


12 posted on 02/21/2025 11:08:51 AM PST by econjack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There are seven countries in between the United States and Ecuador. Send her back.


13 posted on 02/21/2025 11:09:40 AM PST by Terabitten (Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Claimed SPOUSAL ABUSE is grounds for asylum?

WTF are we doing?


14 posted on 02/21/2025 11:10:11 AM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington0 DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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Despite seeking asylum in the United States to escape a violent former partner...

That is not a reason to leave her home country and seek asylum.   Did her dog eat her homework?

15 posted on 02/21/2025 11:12:51 AM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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Ecuador shares a border with two other countries. In order to get to the U.S. from Ecuador you have to cross at a minumum seven other countries, are none of those countries fit for asylum? What other crimes qualify someone for asylum? If a woman gets her purse snatched on the sidewalk does that do it? How about my credit card being stolen, does that do it?

On the face of it her asylum claim is absurd, she should have never been in the U.S. in the first place. She should have been turned around at the border or airport.

16 posted on 02/21/2025 11:14:08 AM PST by GaryCrow
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Since when is asylum granted for domestic abuse?

And, if she fled Ecuador, then she should have been stopped in Mexico.


17 posted on 02/21/2025 11:16:16 AM PST by MortMan (Charter member of AAAAA - American Association Against Alliteration Abuse)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These refugees and asylum seekers are coached as to what to say to get around US immigration laws - that they face abuse, threats or are in fear of their lives if they are returned.

We are not the world’s dumping ground for the 3rd world and the ones that are here cost us billions, as Musk is uncovering.


18 posted on 02/21/2025 11:16:45 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She can apply the right way now


19 posted on 02/21/2025 11:17:01 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Buh-bye


20 posted on 02/21/2025 11:18:04 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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