PostPostAnna Núñez on X: "She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind. Maribel Lopez was hastily deported to Guatemala despite a pending asylum appeal, leaving behind a toddler. Her case highlights growing pattern of speedy deportations. By @mirjordan Insta @heislerphoto https://t.co/AsgW4jvgx8"She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind. Maribel Lopez was hastily deported to Guatemala despite a pending asylum appeal, leaving behind a toddler. Her case highlights growing pattern of speedy deportations. By @mirjordan Insta @heislerphotoMaribel Lopez has been separated from her THREE children since early September, when federal agents raided the nutrition-bar factory where she worked in Central New York. Ms. Lopez was detained and deported to Guatemala, leaving behind her 2-year-old son. It shouldn’t have happened. Maribel Lopez was supposed to be protected from deportation because she had a pending asylum case on appeal, after fleeing years of abuse in her home country. nytimes.com/2025/11/14/us/…The government returned Maribel Lopez to the United States late on Thursday because of the MISTAKE. But she is still apart from him, held in a detention center while her asylum appeal works its way through the courts. Rather, her deportation was an error, email communications between her lawyers and Immigration and Customs Enforcement indicate, and the speed at which it took place appears to have separated her from her son. “We are seeing a disturbing rise in cases where mothers and families are deported without their children,” said Kelly Kribs, an immigration lawyer at the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights. 57 people were detained, 17 were PARENTS, who collectively had more than 20 CHILDREN, per Workers’ Center of Central New York, a nonprofit that advocates for low-wage workers. At least 7 of PARENTS have already been DEPORTED, more expected to be expelled. In communications reviewed by The New York Times, ICE acknowledged that Ms. Lopez was “inadvertently” removed from the United States. Maribel Lopez had the right to remain in the country because she had an active asylum appeal. nytimes.com/2025/11/14/us/…