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Paola ClouatreA 25-year-old mother of two from Mexico and wife of a marine veteran, this week was released on her own recognition-two months after being arrested by immigration and customs administration agents during a green card meeting, says her lawyer and husband.
Since the end of May, Paola, who was still breastfeeding a 4 -month -old daughter Lyn when she was arrested, had been held at a facility about three hours from her family, who lives in Baton Rouge, LA.
Now she is at home with husband Adrian, 26, and their two children, including almost 2-year-old son, Noah.
The couple spoke to people from Louisiana, when their young children were to laugh in the background, one day after they reunited when Ice Freed Paola from detention.
Her case is one of an increasing number around the country that is paying attention to federal immigration policy. President Donald Trump successfully struggled last year to beat down illegal immigration, but some of his deportations has sparked greater debate.
Paola, although no longer held in Monroe, LA., It is obliged to wear an ankle monitor for the rest of her legal procedures.
ICE did not respond to a request for comment on her release, but Homeland Security officials have defended their decision to retain Paola as important for law enforcement.
Her lawyer, Carey Holliday, and husband says she was brought to the United States as a teenager by her mother, from whom she is now strange, and originally received protection under the asylum system. Later, however, a removal order was issued against her after she missed a hearing in 2018, something she claims that she was not aware of for several years.
Her long drives home with Adrian on Monday July 28 gave them plenty of time to plan the moment she would be reunited with her children.
“It’s heartwarming,” says Adrian, restaurant manager. “She hid in the car and we let the dogs out and the kids, and she looked at them just a second and show up from nowhere.”
Adrian says his son Noah saw for a moment “shocked” before going to her and admitted that “the dogs of course lost.”
He says that daughter Lyn “wants to be held by mother all the time right now.”
“It’s something I can’t describe, because it’s like – it’s happiness, love,” says Paola about keeping his children again outside the walls of the detention center.
Paola remembered what it felt like to see her husband and children go away after each visit, especially when Noah cried.
“It’s very difficult, it’s hard, to be there without your family and just be locked up, it’s like jail,” she says, adding, “and leaving him crying, I felt bad, (i) just came back to the sleeping room and started crying.”
According to Adrian, Paola was 14 when she was brought to the United States from Mexico by her mother. But after teens Paola and her mother became foreign, according to Paola’s lawyer, it became difficult for her to track her legal status.
It was only when he applied to be permanently resident after marrying Adrian 2024 that Paola was told that she was the subject of a deportation order, according to her husband.
The couple was honest about it during the Green Card meeting, but that didn’t affect what happened next, Adrian previously told People.
“They let me hug and kiss her goodbye, we talked for two minutes and then they took her into the ice facility,” Adrian said of her arrest.
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In a statement to people last week, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin Paola’s Removal Order from 2018 quoted and said: “President Trump and secretary (Christ) Noem will not ignore the rule of law.”
In July, a judge granted a proposal to open Paola’s case and the place was later changed from California, where the couple met and lived, to Louisiana, where they raise their family, says her lawyer.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review The site currently lists the status of her procedures as ongoing.
“I struggled to sleep last night,” says Paola, “but it feels warm to be back to my bed and cuddle my husband, cuddle my children.”