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Honduran woman wins stay of deportation and exits church in Utah having spent three YEARS in sanctuary after being ordered out of the US in 2016  Vicky Chavez, 33, stepped outside of First Unitarian Church in Salt Lake City on Thursday with tears in her eyes as church congregants and friends cheered Chavez has been granted a stay of removal by the Biden administration that will allow her to remain in the United States for at least a year She said she received the notice from Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday telling her that she had received the stay of removal

Analysis By Jennifer Doherty | February 26, 2021, 8:36 PM EST For immigration attorney Lizbeth Mateo, her clients' cases are personal — the outcomes could affect her own removal proceedings someday. (Photo courtesy of Lizbeth Mateo/Optimist Films) Before immigration attorney Lizbeth Mateo accompanied her client, Edith Espinal, into U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's office in Westerville, Ohio, on Feb. 18, she made a routine call to her assistant back in California. Like her client, Mateo lacks legal documents to reside in the U.S., and she knew that either of them could b...

Lizbeth Mateo wants young undocumented people to know they can achieve their dreams. Mateo, 36, is an undocumented immigrant and an attorney in California who is featured in "The Undocumented Lawyer," an 18-minute documentary released last week on HBO. It details her life and her work with Edith Espinal, an undocumented immigrant who was in sanctuary in a Columbus church for more than three years. Documentary filmmakers Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci followed Mateo for about two years as she worked with Espinal — who is featured heavily in the film — traveling frequently from Mateo's ...

Edith Espinal's attorney featured in HBO documentary 'The Undocumented Lawyer' Danae King, The Columbus Dispatch © Courtney Hergesheimer/Columbus Dispatch Lizbeth Mateo, right, the lawyer for Edith Espinal, left, takes a selfie at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Westerville on Feb. 18 after getting an order of supervision for Espinal that allowed her to leave the church where she was staying in sanctuary. Lizbeth Mateo wants young undocumented people to know they can achieve their dreams. Mateo, 36, is an undocumented immigrant and an attorney in Cali...

Asylum seekers from different countries are trying to enter the United States, searching for a fresh start and new life. However, the previous administrations are skeptical about letting them in. Now that the Biden administration leads the United States, a Honduran immigrant leaves church sanctuary after three and a half years, as the Immigrations Customs Enforcement or ICE pledges not to deport him. According to Huff Post, Alex Garcia from Honduras, a father of five, was slated for removal from the United States in 2017, the first year of the Former President Donald Trump's administration. ...