Immigrant detainee who alleged sex abuse released
AUSTIN, Texas — A Salvadoran woman who said a guard groped her inside an immigration detention facility has been released, advocates said.
Laura Monterrosa-Flores was released late Friday from the T. Don Hutto Residential Center outside of Austin, where she had been held for months, Grassroots Leadership organizer Bethany Carson told The Associated Press on Saturday.
“She’s able to go about her life and recover from the abuses that she suffered in detention and before that, in El Salvador,” Carson said.
The Mexican American Legal Defence and Educational Fund, which had sued on Monterrosa-Flores’ behalf, said in a statement Saturday that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security agreed to release her under deferred action, which provides individuals temporary relief from deportation.