ICE Arrests Hispanic Mother and Threatens Deportation on Mother’s Day

ICE threatens deportation of Venezuelan mother

Mother faces immediate deportation

Young children left without mother

What was supposed to be a routine immigration check-in ended with a family separated in Texas.

Anna Catherine Delgado, originally from Venezuela, was detained by ICE agents on April 29 in San Antonio.

She now faces possible deportation to Venezuela during Mother’s Day weekend, according to Univision.

ICE detains Venezuelan mother in Texas and threatens deportation

“A Hispanic mother was detained by ICE agents and faces deportation during Mother’s Day after being separated from her young children.”
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Anna Catherine Delgado’s children, Hannah, age 1, and Isaiah, younger than 4 years old, remain with their father while constantly asking about their mother.

The family says they received no clear explanation during the operation.

Anna Catherine and her husband, José Rosales, had applied for political asylum in the United States.

The request was denied. Even so, since 2020, she had regularly attended her immigration check-in appointments.

The operation caught the family by surprise

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The detention occurred as Anna Catherine Delgado was leaving the office with one of her children.

Norma Rosales described how several agents surrounded the family.

“When she walked out holding the child’s hand, four other vehicles arrived — a total of seven or eight men with vests and weapons surrounded her and told her she had to go with them,” Norma Rosales explained.

According to the family, Anna Catherine was placed into a vehicle without further explanation.

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José Rosales immediately came outside after noticing the operation.

He was carrying Hannah, the couple’s youngest daughter.

He was unable to prevent his wife’s detention.

The family says the situation caught everyone completely off guard.

Since then, the children have remained separated from their mother while trying to understand what happened.

The case adds to other recent reports of immigration detentions connected to ICE operations in San Antonio.

Young daughter struggles without Anna Catherine Delgado

The situation has particularly affected Hannah, who is only one year old.

Norma Rosales explained that the child was still breastfeeding.

Now she refuses other types of milk.

“She’s like, ‘I still need two more years of my milk,’ and she doesn’t want to drink the milk we’ve tried giving her,” Norma said with concern.

The family says the little girl constantly misses her mother.

They also fear the emotional impact the separation could have on both children.

Meanwhile, Anna Catherine Delgado managed to contact her husband by phone.

According to Norma Rosales, she initially said she was being held in Arizona.

Later, she informed them that she could be deported within days.

“Anna, my daughter-in-law, called my son and told him she was in Arizona. They told her she would be deported in a few days,” Norma said through tears.

Later, the family received another phone call in which Anna Catherine reportedly said the deportation could happen Sunday.

Family hoped to regularize Anna Catherine Delgado’s immigration status

José Rosales had already started a formal petition seeking legal residency for his wife in the United States.

The goal was to begin a process allowing her to remain legally in the country.

However, according to the family, they never received an official response to the application.

Now they face the possibility of a prolonged separation.

Norma Rosales said she feels powerless in the situation.

“I can’t help my son, my grandchildren, or my daughter-in-law,” she said while crying.
Uncertainty continues growing as the family waits to learn Anna Catherine’s immigration future.

The case comes amid recent immigration enforcement operations in Texas that have generated concern among immigrant families.