A West Liberty man with no criminal background has been deported to Guatemala. Pascual Pedro Pedro was arrested at an annual check-in in Cedar Rapids. He was then taken to the Muscatine County Jail and deported over the weekend.
His lawyer, Timothy Farmer, says he found out Pedro Pedro had been deported when he went to deliver an application to pause deportation proceedings Monday morning. Farmer says the application was delivered too late, and the process was delayed by the Independence Day holiday.
“I kind of got involved on Thursday, you know, we would have had to file this application that day, which, you know, obviously we didn’t do. And I don’t think we even could have managed that. So, it’s unfortunate, but I know this is part of … this is the strategy, I think, to just deport people so quickly that they don’t have time to respond.”…