A 6-year-old Ecuadorian lady and her mom who had been residing in Queens and have been detained after a routine immigration listening to earlier this month have been deported.
The destiny of the lady’s teenage brother, who had been with them and was separated when federal brokers took the household, is anticipated to be the identical, federal officers confirmed Wednesday. He had been held at a detention heart in New Jersey, almost 2,000 miles from the place his mom and sister have been despatched for holding in Texas.
Assemblymember Catalina Cruz confirmed the deportation with congressional liaisons in Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez’s workplace. Gov. Kathy Hochul additionally confirmed the deportation in a message posted to social media.
Hochul referred to as Jackson Heights, the place the 6-year-old lived and went to high school, the one residence the kid had ever recognized. She will not return there.
“Instead, today, they were sent on a plane to a country — to a foreign country, for this little girl,” Hochul stated in her publish Tuesday evening. “This is cruel, and I say to those who did this, ‘Where is your humanity?'”
A six-year-old lady and her mom from Jackson Heights have been deported at present.
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— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) August 19, 2025
Six-year-old Dayra is a scholar at PS 89, the Jose Peralta Faculty of Dreamers in Queens. She had been getting ready to return there within the fall.
Councilmember Shekar Krishnan, a Democrat representing Jackson Heights, says the household confirmed as much as 26 Federal Plaza on Aug. 5 for a scheduled immigrant check-in. Krishnan says they have been detained on the listening to.
“Family separation is cruel it is unnecessary it is not making our community safer. What it is doing is spreading horror and terror in neighborhoods like my own in Jackson Heights and Elmhurst,” he stated.
A spokesperson for NYC Colleges shared the next assertion:
“After we hear a few household that’s being detained, we’ve got– with their permission – linked them with neighborhood and company companions who can provide authorized assist and different assets.”
A spokesperson for the Division of Homeland Safety stated Dayra, her mom Martha, and her older brother all entered the nation “illegally” in December 2022.
“They have all received final orders of removal from an immigration judge,” the spokesperson stated.
