NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – After an emotional 24 hours following her deportation to Honduras, 21-year-old Vilma Palacios said she was wrongly arrested and sent back to her home country. However, she still hopes to pursue her dream of being a nurse in Louisiana.
Palacios said she was notified Saturday afternoon, Dec. 27, that she would be sent on a deportation flight from Louisiana to Honduras the next morning. That was also supposed to be the day when her family from the New Orleans metro area would visit her at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana.
Instead of saying her final goodbyes, Palacios and other detainees were shackled, loaded on a plane and flown more than 1,000 miles to Honduras…