She can file a grievance with the Mexican Embassy.
Via KHOU
Beatriz Esquivel has been checking Facebook daily, eager for information of how President Barack Obama plans to use his executive powers to prevent undocumented immigrants such as her from being deported.
Her hopes climbed Friday when she read Obama’s action was coming soon, only to be smashed Saturday morning.
“BREAKING NEWS,” blared a post by a local immigrant activist. “President Barack Obama has just announced that he will not take any executive actions on immigration until after November’s elections.”
The announcement left Esquivel, and millions of other undocumented immigrants, feeling like a political volleyball.
“I feel like I am caught in a political game,” the Phoenix woman said. “It’s like a game of volleyball. … I have been counting the days. What’s going to happen?”
Originally from Mexico City, Esquivel, 41, has lived in the U.S. illegally for more than 20 years. She crossed the border in January 1994, near Nogales with her daughter, Marlene, who was not quite 2 years old at the time.
In 2013, Marlene, now 22, received protection from deportation under Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.[…]
Esquivel cleans houses for a living. She was hoping Obama would expand the program to parents of children already approved for the program.
That would allow her to work legally, perhaps return to school, and stop worrying that she might be deported someday and separated from her husband, Enrique, 50, who is also undocumented, and her two children.