00:00No! No! My daddy!
00:05An immigration arrest at Salt Lake International Airport has gone viral.
00:09Federal immigration agents arrested Marta Renderos Leyva yesterday.
00:13This was near the baggage claim, saying that she's from El Salvador
00:17and has been in the U.S. illegally since 2020.
00:20Well tonight, Tina is speaking exclusively to her family to find out more about what happened.
00:25Leslie Duarte joins us live tonight from the airport.
00:28Leslie?
00:28I don't hear anything.
00:38Yes, the family tells me they were about to walk through the TSA line
00:43when they were stopped by the men and the following happened.
00:49The video shows 39-year-old Marta Briseida Renderos Leyva
00:53being detained by federal agents at the airport.
01:00The family member of Renderos Leyva says
01:03they were on their way to Washington.
01:05They were maltratating me.
01:07I was impotent to not be able to do anything for her
01:12and to see that they can't listen to anyone.
01:17They were not able to maltratate her
01:20and they followed her as if she was a animal.
01:23They were human beings and they shouldn't treat her like this.
01:25Renderos Leyva's family says she had a work permit
01:28and had no criminal history.
01:30Two news looked into it and found she had two parking tickets
01:33and a crossing guard infraction.
01:35She does everything she can to follow the law
01:39and that she will never commit crime.
01:42She's like the greatest person ever.
01:44According to Adam Craig, an attorney familiar with the case.
01:47This female respondent, that's what they're called in the immigration court,
01:53was one that did not show at an immigration hearing
01:56so it got a removal in absentia,
02:00which means there was a deportation order that took place.
02:02When that happens, you have an X amount of time to file an appeal
02:07and I don't know if there's been an appeal filed.
02:10The family says they never received a letter, never received a notice.
02:13What does that mean for her case?
02:15So that means theoretically that she has a pretty valid motion to reopen
02:19and people say that a lot,
02:22but one of the things that we have to show is
02:24that she continued to maintain an address
02:27that was easily obtained by immigration.
02:30In a statement, I said she was given a deportation order in 2020.
02:34How much time does she have before she is removed from the country?
02:39That's the hard part because with the removal order in place,
02:42they could have already gotten a targeted arrest done.
02:45They could have the plane ready to go on Friday, which is tomorrow,
02:48and she literally could be in her country of origin.
02:54Craig says it's important to note that the removal order was more than five years ago.
02:59The family says they weren't aware of that notice.
03:02It's important also to note, Craig says they have to look into why the family wasn't aware of that.
03:08Reporting in Salt Lake City, Leslie Duarte, KUTV2 News.
