CNN En Español reports that on Wednesday, the U.S. government deported Zharik Daniela Buitrago Ortiz, a 21-year-old Colombian woman who is eight months pregnant and arrived at the Texas border in November seeking asylum with her mother and siblings. Her deportation proceeded despite a habeas corpus petition alleging she was in a medical emergency and being denied medical care while in U.S. immigration custody.

Speaking with CNN, Anthony Enriquez, our vice president of U.S. advocacy and litigation at the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center and counsel for Buitrago Ortiz, said she sought asylum “because her father had been killed in Colombia,” and that she was deported despite being “in a serious medical condition, with pain in her navel and back.” He added that a federal judge granted an order barring her deportation through January 30 if she had not yet left the United States, but the order was issued only after she had already been removed.

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