According to Tucker May, the deportation of filmmaker Barbara Marques is scheduled for this Wednesday, but would be “illegal” because the court decided to review the case
Tucker May, the American married to the Brazilian filmmaker made an appeal on Tuesday (30.Set.2025) for people to send “a flood”From calls and emails to congressmen from Louisiana (USA) to avoid the deportation of the woman.
According to Instagram, published by screenwriter and producer Nikki Groton in collaboration with May and two others, the motion to reopen Barbara’s case was accepted by a court. “This is a huge step: it means that Barbara cannot be legally deported while the judge reviews the case“, he wrote.
Even with the review process, according to the report, the United States Immigration and Customs Service) marked this Wednesday (1st.out) Barbara’s deportation and transferred it to the boarding unit in Alexandria, Louisiana. “If the ICE proceeds, it will violate the federal law ”says the text.
“We need a real flood of calls and emails today [3ª feira (30.set)] demanding that Barbara be returned to the Southern Louisiana unit and not deported until your case is active ”read in the message. Also included in Instagram a connection script and an email model.
“Barbara now has cool protection. ICE must obey the law. We are counting on you to help Barbara ”says the text.
Understand the case
Barbara, niece of actress Elisa Lucinda, was detained by the Ice, as she reported her husband in a on Saturday (27.set).
According to May, they married in April this year and went to an interview of the process of request for permanent residence, the so -called green cardin Los Angeles, California, on September 16. “In the end of what we were told to have been a successful meeting, the policeman used the excuse of a broken copier to induce her to move away from our lawyer. Once separated from her lawyer, she was arrested ”he declared.
May reported that ICE agents told Barbara that she had been detained for missing a visa regularization hearing in 2019, which would have made a deportation order. However, May said the filmmaker was never notified of this hearing.
The lawyer of the case, Marcelo Gondim, said in which Barbara entered the US in 2018 with a tourist visa. According to him, the filmmaker even entered the extension process of the permanence period in the country. “She was not notified of the negative or the date of the audience – probably because she changed her address ”declared the lawyer.
Gondim said that Barbara has no criminal record and that the standard procedure would have been to interrupt the request of the green card and give a period of 30 days to resolve the pending issue.
Barbara’s husband told BBC Brazil who managed to see her through a glass wall and that she was in shock, crying a lot and with handcuffs in her hands and feet. “She said that when she was handcuffed, she despaired and that the agent laughed at her face and took a selfie with her crying ”disseon may. “There is no sense of humanity. It seems that they feel pleasure in cruelty ”he declared.
According to May, authorities have limited Barbara’s access to the lawyer’s documents. On Sunday (28.Set), he said the filmmaker had been without food or water for more than 12 hours and almost sleepless.
Actress Elisa Lucinda commented on the case of her niece in one, on Monday (29.Set). “At this point, in response to the lawyer’s recommendation, the family made the decision to wait a few hours so that the judge can comment on the petition in defense of Barbara and in favor of her return to Los Angeles, where she lives, is married and works ”these.
Barbara Marques is director, producer and actress. Your first short film, “Days of Cosme and Damião”was released in 2016. Already in Los Angeles, she directed the short “Cartaxo ” (2020), in honor of actress Marcélia Cartaxo. Also signs “Black ” (2021), displayed at the 16th LABRFF (Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival), in 2023, in a session with.
