Javier Castillo Maradiaga’s fate hangs in the balance, caught between a deportation ban and a temporary restraining order against it.
The 27-year-old former DACA recipient’s planned deportation to Honduras early Monday morning had been stopped by President Biden’s 100-day moratorium on most removals. He was even transferred from an Immigration and Customs Enforcement staging facility in Alexandria, La., to a facility in New York. But as of Thursday he was back in Louisiana, a point of final departure for many ICE detainees.
According to Maradiaga’s sister, Dariela Moncada Maradiaga, 37, who lives in New York City, he told her over the phone he expects to be deported at 5 a.m. Friday.
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