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Venezuelan Mother & 2 Children Deported to Mexico Hours After Traffic Stop in Arizona

HeadlineFeb 18, 2025

The Tucson-based independent outlet Arizona Luminaria is reporting an undocumented Venezuelan mother and two of her children were deported to southern Mexico just hours after a minor traffic stop. Arizona Public Safety troopers claimed the mother, identified as Yesenia, was driving under the speed limit. She described being handcuffed in front of her children, aged 6 and 9. The troopers called Border Patrol agents, who apprehended Yesenia and her two children and later turned them over to Mexican immigration officials in the border city of Nogales before they were put on a bus and driven about 2,000 miles away to the southern Mexican state of Tabasco. The mother was incommunicado for days, until she was finally able to call her family letting them know of her whereabouts. Her two other children, who are 8 and 14 years old, are still in Tucson.

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