After being deported from Minnesota final week, a younger mom says she’s again in Honduras with out her 8-month-old baby.
Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar, 22, lived in St. Cloud along with her companion. They moved to South Dakota shortly earlier than having a baby in March.
In a Zoom dialog translated from Spanish to English from her mother and father’ home in Honduras, Menjivar Aguilar instructed WCCO concerning the second she was detained by federal brokers at a September fingerprinting appointment for an accepted work allow.
“‘Is that this your child?’ I stated sure. And shortly after they requested if I used to be breastfeeding. I stated no,” stated Menjivar Aguilar by a translator. “They arrested me in handcuffs behind my again.”
Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar
Kelly Clark is Menjivar Aguilar’s immigration lawyer.
“She signed one thing that they instructed her was, ‘If you’re eliminated you’ll be able to take your child with you,’ and he or she signed that doc, however on the finish she was eliminated with out her child,” Clark stated.
Menjivar Aguilar explains her two-week journey to the U.S. when she was 17, crossing the Rio Grande along with her youthful brother, all to flee a gang who was making an attempt to recruit them, and to be with their dad within the U.S. He is since been deported, too.
The assistant secretary for the U.S. Division of Homeland Safety launched this assertion: “On September 29, ICE arrested Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar, an unlawful alien from Honduras. She illegally entered the U.S. on April 13, 2021, close to Eagle Cross, Texas, and was RELEASED into this nation by the Biden administration. She acquired full due course of and was ordered eliminated by an immigration decide on October 12, 2022. This administration isn’t going to disregard the rule of regulation.”
Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjivar Aguilar
Her lawyer confirms she had the excellent order of removing from 2022 after lacking a court docket date, which Menjivar Aquilar says she did not find out about as her father dealt with her paperwork and mail.
“After that removing order occurred, she was given deferred motion, which is actually a ‘we’re not going to deport you,'” Clark stated. “It’s discretionary. It may be revoked, nevertheless it wasn’t revoked”
“All I need is to be with my household, my child and my companion,” Menjivar Aguilar stated.
When Menjivar Aguilar was detained in September, she was accepted for a particular immigrant juvenile visa. Her lawyer is now working with the household to see if they’ll get her and her child again collectively.

