Maribel Trujillo, the Ohio mom of four who was allowed to return to the United States 17 months after her deportation to Mexico, said she spent a lot of the time she was apart from her family in prayer. It’s what carried her all the way through the past few weeks, when she found out she would be able to return back home for a chance to petition for asylum and to be with her family.
"The fact is that I traveled to Detroit two weeks ago without any luggage,” she said. “I only had a bag full of the prayer books that sustained me during those months.” Now back in Hamilton, Trujillo and her family surprised supporters at St. Julie Billiart Catholic Church by appearing just before Mass last Sunday.
”Women shrieked her name. ‘Maribel!' Maribel!'” the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. "Tears flowed Sunday morning. The pain and frustration of 17 months since Trujillo-Diaz had been deported to her native Mexico melted in the warmth of tight hugs and prayers of thanksgiving for her deliverance.” It’s pain that never should have happened in the first place.
Trujillo had been checking in regularly with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when she was arrested in the weeks following Donald Trump’s inauguration. The mom of four U.S. citizens, including a young girl who suffers from seizures, didn’t have a criminal record. Her community was outraged, and loud, but ICE didn’t care about the harm her deportation would cause to her American children, and she was deported anyway.
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