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ICE Plans to Deport Ortega to Mexico, Lawyer Challenges

4/23/2026

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ICE will transfer Deisy Rivera Ortega to Mexico after telling her family she would be freed.
Ortega, an El Salvador native married to Sgt. First Class Jose Serrano, has been detained in El Paso since her April 14 arrest during a Parole in Place appointment, which DHS justified with a 2019 deportation order and a misdemeanor illegal-entry conviction.
Attorney Matthew James Kozik will file a court challenge to block the removal.

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ICE will transfer Deisy Rivera Ortega to Mexico after telling her family she would be freed.
Ortega, an El Salvador native married to Sgt. First Class Jose Serrano, has been detained in El Paso since her April 14 arrest during a Parole in Place appointment, which DHS justified with a 2019 deportation order and a misdemeanor illegal-entry conviction.
Attorney Matthew James Kozik will file a court challenge to block the removal.