A Douglas County teacher who was arrested by immigration authorities last month has been removed from the United States and returned to her home nation of Peru.

Marina Ortiz and her family agreed to voluntarily depart the U.S. earlier this month, ending their detention in a family facility in Dilley, Texas, according to an email sent to parents by her former school. A voluntary departure is a less punitive version of a deportation that immigrants in federal detention can request from an immigration judge.

People who pursue voluntary departures are typically required to leave within two weeks of a judge accepting the request, and they leave directly from detention.

“Unfortunately, this decision means that Mrs. Ortiz and her family will not be permitted to return to Colorado prior to le

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