Maria de Jesus Jimenez-Sanchez, an Aurora mother of four from Mexico who had lived in the U.S. illegally for more than 15 years before she was detained earlier this month by immigration officials, has been deported.

Jimenez-Sanchez’ attorney, Jennifer Kain-Rios, said her client was removed from the U.S. on April 18.

Kain-Rios said possible next steps in the case are pending.

Jimenez-Sanchez’ detainment gained widespread attention after she was taken into custody when she went to a check-in with U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement on April 12. ICE had granted her one-year stays of deportation four times dating back to April 2013, but her latest request for a stay was denied in mid-March.

Kain-Rios said Jiminez-Sanchez was meeting with ICE officials, as part of the conditions of her stays of removal, when she was detained.

ICE said in a statement last week that Jimenez-Sanchez, also known as Karen Araujo-Jimenez, is considered to be “an egregious immigration violator” with two prior removals from the country.

The agency says she first entered the U.S. without authorization in October 1999 and voluntarily returned to Mexico the same day. According to ICE, she again illegally re-entered the country on May 23, 2001 — at the Douglas, Ariz., port of entry — while posing as another person. Jimenez-Sanchez was immediately deported through expedited removal proceedings.

Then Jimenez-Sanchez, after a traffic stop in Aurora, “was transferred to ICE custody on Dec. 6, 2012, following her arrest on local misdemeanor criminal charges,” ICE said in a statement to The Denver Post.

“On March 28, 2013, (she) requested a review by a federal immigration judge,” the statement said. “On May 28, 2013, the immigration judge upheld the previous removal order and referred the case back to DHS to execute the removal order.”

The stays of deportation allowed her to stay in the country until the March decision.

Kain-Rios said that Jimenez-Sanchez has followed the orders of ICE and been living in Aurora since 1999, returning to Mexico once in February 2001 to visit her sick mother. She said that the mother shouldn’t have been targeted for deportation because she had not serious criminal history and has deep ties to the community.

“Maria de Jesus has a 15-year-old daughter with a disability,” Kain-Rios said. “Maria de Jesus’ three other children are 7, 8, and 19 years old. She wants to stay so she can continue to take care of her children.”

Kain-Rios says she was told the latest stay request was denied because of the changeover to President Donald Trump’s administration and it’s “new priorities.”

“Look at her immigration history,” Kain-Rios said. “In my experience, when you talk about egregious immigration violators, we’re talking about people who were removed for criminal purposes and then re-enter the United States.”

ICE says it does not indiscriminately seek out people living in the country illegally, but rather looks for people who pose a danger to public safety or border security. The agency said it conducts targeted immigration enforcement in compliance with federal law and its own policy.