Judge stays deportation order of Houston teacher from Haiti
09:02 PM CST on Wednesday, February 7, 2007
From 11 News staff reports
The Houston school teacher singled out for deportation to Haiti was freed from the ICE Detention Center Wednesday night.
A judge stayed the deportation order and reopened Marie Baptiste?s application for a visa.
Baptiste was brought to the U.S. by her parents when she was only nine.
She?s now married with two young children.
An immigration judge had ordered her back to Haiti after she showed up late for a visa hearing.
She said she was late because her children had gotten sick.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee got involved in her case after 11 News brought attention to it.
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