By james art 
From the small living room, in a house tucked away in a tiny and remote village of Honduran, Valner Sauseda recalled what it was to be deported from the United States.
The 24 -year -old Sauseda was a rookie teacher at Palms Spring Middle School in Hylaia when he was detained in early January and deported a month later.
“I applied for asylum and this application process took a few years,” Sauseda said.
His asylum application was eventually refused and his appeal did not go anywhere, he told the NBC6.
So he was looking for other legal paths to remain in the country.
Given its unresolved immigration status, Sauseda had to register with immigration officers.
Previous appointments were unobstructed and employees usually issue a subsequent meeting.
On January 7, he missed school to appoint Miramar’s immigration service, but this time something was strange.
“I got there at 8 o’clock in the morning and noticed it was 13:00 and then 14:00 and then 15:00,” Sauseda said.
He was then told to park his car inside the batch. And once in the government building, he asked the employees what was going on.
“I was told you were detained,” said Sauseda, who added that it was such a shocking blow that he could not tell her parents, so he called Uncle to break the news of the rest of the family.
“It was emotionally difficult for me,” he said.
Part 2: Waulner Saucea tells when he was detained and deported from Ice to Hatzel Vela on NBC6.
Now Sauseda lives at three o’clock northeast of Teguchigalpa, the capital of Honduran.
It took three hours to reach the car and Sauseda pointed the road to its city through dirt roads in the mountainous terrain.
In Honduras, Sauseda lives with his uncle and grandparents on the maternal line, who rely in part on what they grow and raise: beans, coffee, chicken and cattle.
Unlike the US, most, if not all homes do not have running water or air conditioning.
Nearby river is the source of the water they use for bathing and washing. Their drinking water comes from a well.
Although he grew up in this setting until the age of 13, Saucea had played with the amenities of South Florida.
“I was born here [Honduras]Sauseda said, who added that he and his cousin had escaped from his home side after being killed by a close relative.
Like a teenager, the migrating north remains a bright memory.
“I remember crossing … the river,” he recalls, and eventually reunited with his parents here in South Florida.
He enrolled in Henry H. Filler High School in Hialeia for eighth grade, after which he attended Westland Hylae High School.
Since her early school days, Sauseda said, “I felt I could do things that I never thought I could do.”
He quickly learned the English language, and in the senior year he took advanced courses.
“I remember taking honors in English for the elderly, worshiping before Calcum and honors, and it was something I really liked because I switched from Esol Level 1 to Esol Level 4,” he remembered proudly.
Despite his waiting immigration case, he had aspirations for more.
“I knew I wanted to be a teacher since I was a child,” he recalled.
At first, he thought he could be a mathematics teacher, but eventually settled on science and began his career at a college at Miami Dade College.
Financially, the college was draining because without a work permission he could not work and finding money for scholarships for undocumented students was difficult.
But he found thedream.US – an organization that claims to have provided more than 10,000 scholarships to undocumented students.
Sauseda applied to the International University of Florida and the University of Central Florida and was accepted both, but chose to go to FIU to be closer to her family.
In December 2023, Sauseda ended with an average of 3.4 points and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with a path in education.
“This is my FIU diploma,” he showed with excitement and pride.
“I became even more happier when I received my teaching certificate,” he added.
A month after graduation, he was able to secure a job as a teacher at Miami-Dad public schools.
“I was a little scared because I was not a US citizen, not a permanent resident, but I had social security, so I applied for a teacher certificate,” he told NBC6.
It was a constant fear not only with work, but with life as a whole, and perhaps foreshadow what is to come.
After being detained, he was transferred to the transition center of Bra, Pumpano beach facility where migrants are being kept. Sauseda estimates that it has been in the facility for more than 20 days.
His lawyer Ivan Torres Idalgo Gato applied for postponed action, but Sauseda said that nothing was working.
NBC6 contacted Hidalgo Gato with the intention of learning the details of Saucea’s case, but he told us that he was not interested in presenting some view of the Sauceda case.
Sauseda said he would never forget what an immigration official told him while he was detained.
“He literally said he was told to start putting the people on this plane,” said Sauseda, who was originally detained during Joe Biden’s administration, but later deported after Donald Trump took office.
“The deportation process happened faster,” Sauseda said about the process after Trump was in the oval office.
He recalled that he was then transported to a facility in Louisiana, which he described as a terrible experience where the rooms were above capacity – 60 people in a room he described as made for 24 detainees.
“I remember people moving the mattresses on the floor and slept on the clean metal on the bed,” Sauseda added. “But during the day, the room would be really hot, and then during the closest to that would be really, really cold and I don’t know if they did it on purpose, but it was really bad.”
Two days later, he was taken to the final place before the deportation.
He was chained by his hands, waist and legs.
“When I saw all this, it was shocking to me because I had never experienced anything like that,” he said.
And he will not forget that while they were on the plane, it was told to close their windows so that reporters would not see their shackles when they land.
“Sometimes I think and it saddens my heart,” Sauseda said, stoic, but certainly with emotion.
He was deported to Honduras on February 6th.