Video: ICE tried to turn North Carolina nursing student’s self-deportation into forced removal

A North Carolina nursing student says ICE tried to renege on a court-ordered plan for her self-deportation. Here’s what to know.

Allison Bustillo Chinchilla, a 20-year old who had previously been living in North Carolina, recently agreed to self-deport from the US after spending six months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. She was never charged with a crime.

An immigration judge ordered that Bustillo Chinchilla would voluntarily leave the country on a commercial flight. Things didn’t go as planned though.

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As Cardinal & Pine’s Dylan Rhoney reported, Chinchilla said that, before she could leave, she feared that ICE might be going back on the court order by trying to send her to Louisiana to be deported in handcuffs from there.

“I don’t want to leave handcuffed. I do not want to go to another facility after what I’ve been through in this one. I am so ready to get out of here and just leave like a normal person would. They’re just making life miserable,” she said.

ICE has been under scrutiny in the first few months of Trump’s second term, as the president seeks to deliver on his aggressive promise to increase deportations.