Dallas woman facing deportation after traffic stop arrest

A North Texas woman is running out of time to keep her mother in the United States. Lourdes Coronado was placed in ICE custody during a traffic stop. She is now under a deportation order. Fox 4's Vania Castillo spoke to her daughter, who's making an emotional plea with just days to appeal. A traffic stop that has led to a five-month-long immigration detention. That woman's daughter speaking to us as her family faces uncertainty. Right, whenever she was leaving, she told my aunt, I have a bad feeling. While Lourdes Coronado was driving home on May 8th, she called her daughter. The call Karen Gonzalez missed only lasted a few moments, but the what-if has stayed with her for nearly five months. I'm just like, maybe I could have prevented it. Maybe if I was talking to her, maybe she would have taken another route or something. I wish I would have just hugged her a little tighter. Her mom never made it home that night. Gonzalez says Coronado was pulled over in Flower Mound for driving with a suspended license and no registration. While she was at the jail, her family learned ICE had been contacted. The next day she saw the judge and the judge actually gave her the clear for the suspended license and everything. But with her being held for ICE, they did not let her go. Coronado was moved from Denton County to Dallas, then to an immigration detention facility in Oklahoma. Her daughter says she's been living in the United States for more than 30 years and was trying to secure legal status. She had no criminal history. She wasn't doing anything wrong. She's been in here for over 30 years and she has a whole family here. So it was what we thought would be a simple case. She got approved for her work permit right before she got into custody of immigration. The family was expecting her to come home, but instead, Gonzalez says Coronado was denied My brother was also deported back in 2019. So she's the only immediate family I have left. So her having to be removed from me, from seeing her every day, I don't think people understand how you can be with your family all together and then start losing them piece by piece. And it's just very difficult. And now another clock is running. The family has until October 2nd to appeal, but Gonzalez says that means finding and paying an attorney all over again. According to ICE, Coronado illegally entered the United States. She has no lawful status to be present or remain in the United States and is being held in ICE custody pending immigration proceedings. Gonzalez says her mom is not just a case number. Te quiero mucho and gracias por todo lo que hiciste por mi. No eres mala madre. We all bleed the same. We breathe the same air. You know, she has morals just as anybody else. She is a walking human being. She's not just a number. She's not just an immigrant. Vane Castillo, Fox 4 News.