UPDATED: Flight attendant detained by immigration on return to U.S. 'happy to be free'
In this 2018 photo provided by Feldman Strategies is Selene Saavedra Roman. Selene Saavedra Roman, a flight attendant who traveled to Mexico for work with employment authorization through a program for immigrants brought to the country as children has been detained. Attorney Belinda Arroyo said Friday, March 22, 2019, that Mesa Airlines mistakenly assured 28-year-old Selene Saavedra Roman she could travel internationally but she was detained on her way back.
In a statement issued through a spokesman, Saavedra Roman said that when she left the detention centre, "I cried and hugged my husband and never wanted to let go."Roman's attorney, Belinda Martinez Arroyo, said Mesa Airlines had mistakenly reassured the enrollee in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that she could work a flight to Mexico, but Saavedra Roman was detained Feb. 12 upon her return to Houston.
She has been detained ever since. But soon after her husband, Arroyo, the airline and flight attendants' association publicly demanded her release, Saavedra Roman called to tell him she was getting out.Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the agency was looking into her status at a Texas detention facility. Earlier, the agency said Saavedra Roman didn't have a valid document to enter the country and was being detained while going through immigration court proceedings.
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