A six-year-old Charlotte first grader and her mother went to a routine immigration check-in on Monday and were deported to Venezuela. The paperwork behind it — a virtual hearing the family says the judge never attended, a removal order issued the next morning, an appeal that was never filed — is what this episode walks through, along with what can and can't be established from outside the court file. Also: there may be no Charlotte City Council vote on the I-77 toll lanes before Wednesday's regional decision, and here's how you'll know; the owner of NoDa's Salud Beer Shop pleads guilty to embezzling $442,000 in sales tax; and a free festival at the Whitewater Center this weekend.

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Sources this episode: WFAE, The Charlotte Ledger, The Charlotte Post, NC Department of Revenue, US National Whitewater Center.

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