Isabella Acevedo: the immigration minister's cleaner stuck in Yarl's Wood-must read

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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/23/isabella-acevedo-immigration-minister-cleaner-yarls-wood-mark-harper
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Isabella Acevedo was snatched by immigration officials from her own daughter's wedding and now faces deportation, while Mark Harper, who resigned when it emerged he employed her for less than £10 an hour, is back in government.

Last week the Conservative MP whose central London flat she once cleaned, Mark Harper, was reappointed to the government as a junior minister at the department for work and pensions, just five months after his discovery that Acevedo had been working for him illegally prompted his resignation as immigration minister.

Three days later, Acevedo was summoned from a Haringey town hall ceremony room minutes before her 19-year-old daughter was due to be married there, marched to a waiting van by around seven immigration enforcement officers and taken to Yarl's Wood. Unless an 11th-hour legal challenge is successful, she will be deported to Colombia on Thursday.

"I saw Mr Harper on TV," Acevedo, 47, says. "He is still with his rich friends, still earning good money. Me, I have lost everything: my job is gone, my friends are gone, my dignity is gone. In one day my whole life has changed."