After being deported from Minnesota last week, a young mother says she's back in Honduras without her 8-month old child.

Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjiver Aguilar, 22, lived in St. Cloud with her partner. They moved to South Dakota shortly before having a child in March.

In a Zoom conversation translated from Spanish to English from her parents' house in Honduras, Menjivar Aguilar told WCCO about the moment she was detained by federal agents at a September fingerprinting appointment for an approved work permit.

"'Is this your baby?' I said yes. And soon after they asked if I was breastfeeding. I said no," said Menjivar Aguilar through a translator. "They arrested me in handcuffs behind my back."

Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjiver Aguilar with her child Kimberlyn Yaritza Menjiver Aguilar

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