A 6-year-old Ecuadorian girl and her mother who had been living in Queens, NY and were detained after a routine immigration hearing earlier this month have been deported.
Dayra is one of at least four New York City public school students to be detained by ICE this year. She’s also believed to be the youngest the agency has detained in the five boroughs.
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The fate of the girl’s teenage brother, who had been with them and was separated when federal agents took the family, is expected to be the same, federal officials confirmed Wednesday. He had been held at a detention center in New Jersey, nearly 2,000 miles from where hi