Students and staff from an Illinois high school fundraised over $10,000 on GoFundMe to pay for their classmate's release from an immigrant detention center and the subsequent legal fees to fight her case.
Both Guzman and her father made it to the U.S.-Mexico border where they were stopped by border patrol agents in 2018. They were released and expected to show up to their immigration court hearings.
The father and daughter missed a Feb. 28, 2019 hearing in Chicago due to a possible mix-up in scheduling paperwork,. They later appeared in court on Oct. 16, when they were unexpectedly arrested and taken to an immigration detention center. “It was very difficult, the truth was I was not prepared for this, I did not think that turning 18 would take me to be in a prison,” Guzman said inGuzman’s release means returning to school and possibly staying on track to graduate with her classmates in May. However, her father is still detained at the Kankakee County Jail under ICE custody.
Reyes and Bruning have filed a petition for asylum on Guzman’s behalf and asked that a judge dismiss the order for Guzman’s deportation, the
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