Attorneys for the girl are trying to stop her deportation to Honduras, where her family faced threats because she reported her father for sexually assaulting her when she was 13.
An unaccompanied minor from Guatemala is registered by a Border Patrol agent in a field.
The girl, identified as AMPV in court filings, and her mother were one of more than 60,000 immigrants the Trump administration has forced to wait in Mexico while their immigration cases were completed under the Migrant Protection Protocols policy after they lost their asylum case on Jan. 10 with 30 days to appeal the judge's ruling.
"She came to the US as an unaccompanied minor due to an increasing amount of violence in the camp they were staying at," Blake told BuzzFeed News."Now the government wants to remove her to Honduras despite her mother still being a refugee in Mexico and her having no legal parent or guardian in Honduras."
Because ICE has moved to deport her in the meantime, her pro bono lawyers filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia asking for a new immigration case. That request is scheduled to be heard on May 6, but will be moot if ICE follows through with its deportation on Friday. Attorneys for AMPV argue that because she entered the US as an unaccompanied child, without her mother or any other legal guardian, ICE should start a new immigration case for her under the TVPRA.
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