Hasty raids led to mistakes: Deportation halted for at least 20 migrants targeted

*Some of the affected families were apprehended in their homes, sent to a detention facility in Texas, placed on a plane and were about to be deported when the Board of Immigration Appeals halted their deportation because there were still legal avenues they had not pursued in their immigration case. VL

By Soni Sangha, Fox News Latino

NEW YORK –  At least 20 people swept up in last week’s immigration raids have been granted a temporary reprieve from deportation because they had not exhausted their legal options – and four more families are also waiting a stay that would allow their appeals to be heard, their lawyers told Fox News Latino.

Among those whose deportations were halted were three mothers and five children targeted in the raid who were pulled out of a plane Thursday morning as they were in the process of being deported to El Salvador. Those three families, who had boarded a plane in Texas, narrowly escaped deportation.

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