Gap in policy forces woman to deport herself, reluctantly
TRENTON, MO. -- To be clear, no one is threatening to deport 20-year-old Lauren Gray.
No federal agents have rapped on the door of her family’s home, or at the Lakeview Motor Lodge and Restaurant they’ve owned for 17 years in Trenton.
She’s received no phone calls or letters from the Department of Homeland Security telling her she needs to get out of the United States.
Yet at 9:30 a.m. on July 31 — if the miracle Gray and her family have been working for does not come through — she will board an American Airlines flight that will take her to Dallas and then Houston and, on that same day, out of the U.S. and away from her mother, father and teenage sister, who are here on a visa, and her grandparents, both of whom are naturalized citizens.
It will take her away from the only home she has known since her parents, both British citizens, brought her and sister Gemma here from England when they were ages 4 and 1.
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