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She Was Adopted Into an Abusive Home in the US. Decades Later, ICE Deported Her Back to Brazil
Maria Pires was deported after U.S. policies prioritized individuals with serial criminal records despite her traumatic childhood and efforts to rehabilitate, officials said.
- Pires was adopted into an abusive home where she suffered severe mistreatment, leading to her placement in foster care after three years of abuse and the arrest of her adoptive parent, Sykes, who died years later.
- Pires acknowledged her criminal past, including pleading guilty to aggravated assault.
- U.S. immigration officials labeled Pires as a dangerous serial criminal, citing her past but not her abuse as a child, and subsequently deported her to Brazil, a country she hardly remembers.
- Pires's Brazilian citizenship was lost upon adoption by Sykes, and immigration officials allowed her to remain in the U.S. until detaining her during a check-in under the administration of Donald Trump.
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She was adopted into an abusive home in the US. Decades later, ICE deported her back to Brazil
She was adopted as a child from an orphanage and was subjected to years of abuse when she arrived to the U.S. in Maryland. Decades later, ICE deported her back to Brazil.
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She was adopted into an abusive US home. Decades later, immigration policies sent her back to Brazil
When Maria Pires was adopted from Brazil as a child, she believed she was officially an American. But her adoptive father, who sexually abused her for years, never completed paperwork to make her a citizen.
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Maria Pires was adopted by a U.S. citizen who abused her. After decades in the U.S., ICE deported her because the system never regularized her immigration status or protected her rights as a victim.
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