Eunice Lee, who is co-counsel for the plaintiffs in the case and co-legal director at the University of California at Hastings' Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, said: "It must have been absolutely terrifying for them to think they would be returning to a country where they raised very credible claims of persecution and death. It's outrageous to me that while we were working around the clock, filing briefings for this case's early morning hearing, that people in the government were actively arranging for Carmen's deportation."