A day after Dalila Yeend, a Troy mother of two detained by immigration officials this summer following her arrest for a traffic violation, petitioned for help to raise funds to fight her deportation, a stranger donated the full amount needed. The donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, gave Yeend $1,225 - the cost of filing her green card and work authorization applications. If she couldn't pay and file, it was more likely that an immigration judge would order her deported at her next date in immigration court on Nov. 19.

Yeend's tears of fear yesterday turned to relief today. Yeend, who previously worked at Dunkin' Donuts in Troy, hasn't had steady income since she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after rolling through a stop sign in May.

On Monday, Yeend received a notification from the government that she didn't demonstrate an "inability to pay" because her household income isn't under the federal poverty line and/or she hasn't qualified for public benefits in the last six months. While Yeend's green card application is pending, she isn't eligible for public assistance and while her work authorization isn't approved, she can't work.

"This is just a really stressful time for us," Yeend told the Times Union on Tuesday. "My children are going through this with me."

In August, Yeend's mother set up a GoFundMe for the family that has raised nearly $4,400. Now, community members and advocacy groups are pushing the fundraiser again to raise the $1,225 needed for filing the applications before Nov. 19. Yeend is also trying to raise an extra $250 so that she can renew her 11-year-old daughter's passport and get one for her 9-year-old son so that they can travel if she is deported.

In addition to not being able to work, Yeend can't drive and has been depending on rides from the community.

"The community in Troy has been very understanding and very generous. I have some complete strangers who reached out to help," she said. "The community itself has stepped up big time."

Yeend came with her mother to the U.S. 18 years ago on a New Zealand passport. As a 17 year old, she was a dependent on her mother's permanent resident application. Yeend's mother said a shady immigration lawyer misled the family and stole thousands of dollars from them.

After she turned 18, Yeend had to make her own application to stay in the country. She settled in Troy, where she got married and had kids, of whom she has full custody after a domestic violence incident.

Yeend herself was arrested twice prior to the traffic stop, once for criminal mischief and once as part of a large Rensselaer County investigation into welfare fraud, according to public records. Yeend fought the charges, which were dropped.

According to her current attorney, she made a green card application, working with an attorney doing pro bono work out of Buffalo. In the middle of the process, that attorney decided to stop practicing in that court and Yeend was once again left adrift.

In 2015, ICE began Yeend's deportation proceedings and required her to check in regularly with them. After she rolled through a stop sign in Troy in May, she was arrested for driving without a license, because undocumented immigrants in New York can't get licenses, and turned over to ICE. She was detained in Batavia Federal Detention Facility near Buffalo for two and a half months then released suddenly in August.

Yeend is still fighting her deportation in Buffalo immigration court. Now, if she can't afford to file applications for immigration relief, that threat looms larger.

"I still live every day in fear because of what's going to happen," Yeend said.

If you would like to donate, visit this GoFundMe.

Steve Hughes contributed to this report.

