An undocumented immigrant who worked for President Trump’s private company — and then spoke publicly about Trump’s longtime reliance on undocumented workers — is facing deportation proceedings, her attorney said Thursday.
Victorina Morales, 47, had asked the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to grant her asylum because of violence in her home country of Guatemala.
But the agency rejected her request, saying Morales had waited too long to apply, according to a letter from the agency. Applications for asylum must be filed within a year of arrival in the United States.
Morales did not file hers until she had been in the country for 19 years. She argued for an exception to the one-year rule, on the grounds that circumstances had changed: Violence in Guatemala had worsened, and now she was more of a target because of her public profile.
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