Thierno is one of an untold number of people with special immigrant juvenile status, or SIJ, who have received deportation orders in New York and across the country in recent months. | Isabelle Taft/New York Focus
“As recently as last year, it was rare for judges to order SIJ recipients deported. They understood that the program offered a path to eventual permanent residency and generally gave applicants time for that process to play out. But recent opinions by the immigration court system’s top administrative court have largely invalidated that approach.”
Read These Young New Yorkers Thought Their Future Was Secure. They’re Facing Deportation Instead by Isabelle Taft, June 23, 2026, New York Focus.
Madison Swart for The New York Times