A pregnant Queens mom of two ensnared in a wrenching immigration tangle faces a rushed deportation deadline as her family wages a frightening, desperate fight to help her.
Alma Sofia Centeno Santiago, who fled Guatemala when she was 18, and crossed into the U.S. in 2004 — and then got hit with an order of deportation after missing a court appearance in San Antonio — was grabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents April 12, and placed in a detention facility in Bergen County N.J.
“She’s a good mother. She’s working all the time for her kids” at a Guatemalan restaurant in Jamaica, where she put in 12-hour shifts waiting tables, Naomi Santiago, 26, the detained mom’s niece, said in Spanish. “It’s (a nightmare) for her kids, for my grandmother.”