

Warning: Spoilers forward for the collection finale of Orange Is the New Black!
Actual-life points make their method into Orange Is the New Black season seven, and the storylines hit residence for many individuals. One of the distinguished ones is immigration. A couple of character we have identified for seasons and seasons is confronted with deportation. Maritza Ramos (Diane Guerrero), who didn’t seem in season six, grew to become a primary participant within the first few episodes of the ultimate season, and her story would not finish in smiles.
Since she wasn’t within the earlier season, we do not see precisely when she is launched from jail. However we do see that she’s having fun with the nightlife, regardless that her probation is meant to cease her from doing that. Maritza meets an NBA participant based mostly in Los Angeles who desires to deliver her there. She would not inform him about her previous and the way she will be able to’t go away the state, and opts to not go.
Maritza continues going out and is at a nightclub when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) swarms in. The officers demand to see everybody’s proof of citizenship, however Maritza stated she left her identification at residence. When the subject will get introduced up later, we discover out that she was capable of get into the membership with out her ID due to the way in which she seems to be.
Maritza is taken to an immigration detention heart and retains saying that she is a citizen of the USA. For all she is aware of, that is the reality, as a result of that is what her mom has at all times informed her. When Marisol Gonzales (Jackie Cruz), higher often known as Flaca, will get work responsibility within the ICE kitchen, she’s briefly reunited together with her greatest good friend. Maritza asks Flaca to get in contact together with her mother to get her delivery certificates, because the cellphone card machine is damaged, to show that she’s a citizen. That is once we, and Maritza, discover out that she’s not a citizen and her mother has been hiding that she was truly born in Colombia.
She calls up somebody she is aware of who works in an legal professional’s workplace to assist get her out. Maritza even offers the quantity to different girls being held so that they have an opportunity, too. Sooner or later, Blanca Flores (Laura Gómez), who was picked up by ICE recent out of her launch, notices that Maritza is lacking and figures it is time for her listening to. However when a brand new woman takes her mattress, Blanca’s fears grow to be actual.
On the finish of episode 5, we see a teary-eyed Maritza in chains strolling towards a aircraft the place she is seated amongst different immigrants in the identical uniform. We do not see Maritza for the remainder of the season, so it is secure to imagine that she was taken again to Colombia, a spot she would not even keep in mind ever being.
Sadly, this storyline is near the guts for Guerrero. She shared her household’s immigration story in a 2016 memoir, Within the Nation We Love: My Household Divided. She tailored the story final 12 months for kids, My Household Divided: One Lady’s Journey of Dwelling, Loss, and Hope. Whereas OITNB is a bunch of actors following a script, the storylines aren’t that removed from actuality.