Dolores Freixa, who arrived in the United States at age 11 during the 1980 Mariel boatlift, was woken at 3 a.m. at Eloy Detention Center in Arizona in June and told she was being transferred without being informed of her destination. She was put on a bus with about 40 men who said they had agreed to self-deport to Mexico, but Freixa had never consented to leave the country. At the Mexican border, an officer presented her with a self-deportation document bearing a signature she said was not hers; she refused to get off the bus and was returned to Eloy Detention Center. Freixa had been a lawful permanent resident until she lost that status after a 2015 arrest on burglary, theft and fraud-related charges, and her attempted third-country removal reflects a broader pattern in which Cubans with old removal orders are being sent to third countries like Mexico despite a federal judicial block that was in effect at the time.