Woman, 38, brought here as baby, may be deported
Sheesh.TACOMA, Wash. - A federal immigration judge has ordered a 38-year-old woman adopted by an American couple from Mexico when she was 5 months old to be deported back to her native country.
Tara Ammons Cohen, who has been in the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma since July 8, 2009, has been fighting to stay in America ever since. She fears that being deported to Mexico - where she hasn’t lived since she was an infant, doesn’t speak the language and knows no one - would place her in danger.
“Basically, the judge found her not eligible for withholding of removal (deportation) and found it more likely than not she wouldn’t be persecuted” in Mexico, her attorney, Manuel Rios of Seattle, said Thursday.
Immigration laws do not recognize adoption as a special circumstance in deportations.
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