Nory and her mother were deported together. Then she was orphaned.

Nadra Nittle

Education reporter

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Two days before Estela Ramos Baten was detained during a mandatory immigration check-in, she turned 45. It would be her last birthday.

The mother-of-seven’s health was already fragile when she and her teenage daughter, Nory Sontay Ramos, were deported to their native Guatemala on July 4 — as The 19th reported first . Ramos Baten’s arms ached after years of labor as a seamstress, but as persistent as that pain was, it hadn’t devastated her body like her inflamed liver and high blood pressure. She was in such physical torment that she could no longer work.

Then, her abrupt removal from Los Angeles, where she had lived since 2016 after fleeing gang violence in her homeland, deprived her of medical tre