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Abel Deserves Due Process Not Deportation
Abel merece un proceso legal, no la deportación
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Abel Orozco was on his way home from buying tamales for his family on January 26 when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stopped him on the street in Lyons, Illinois, and detained him without a warrant.
For more than two months since then, ICE has kept Abel locked in a detention center in Indiana and denied him an opportunity to see a judge. “We have been living in a crisis,” his wife Yolanda Orozco told reporters last month.
When ICE abducted Abel, they not only robbed a family of their devoted father and grandfather, but also shuttered the family’s 20-year-old landscaping business that served communities throughout Chicago’s suburbs and provided financial support to 10 other families. The business was the Orozco family’s sole source of income to pay mounting medical bills as Yolanda fights cancer.
Tell ICE to give Abel a day in court
The Trump administration is trying to deport Abel because over 20 years ago, Abel made a brief trip to Mexico to see his father after he had a stroke and received an expedited removal order at the border. Since then, Abel’s brother and nephew in Mexico have been kidnapped and disappeared and he now fears for his own safety if he is forced to go back. Besides this brief trip to care for his father, Abel has lived in Illinois for nearly 30 years and raised three U.S. citizen children. He is also a devoted husband to his wife Yolanda, who was just diagnosed with breast cancer, and a loving grandfather to three children with another due this summer. Although Abel has a viable pathway to gain immigration status, he has never had a chance to present his case before an immigration judge because of his decades-old deportation order.
Abel needs an opportunity to see a judge and seek permanent lawful status and, just as importantly, explain the harm his family and community in Illinois would face if he were forced to permanently leave the United States.
ICE has the authority to provide Abel a day in court by issuing a charging document called a Notice to Appear, which would allow him the opportunity to present his case to a judge and request permanent lawful status.
“My father has been here for over 27 years, he owns his own company, he cuts down trees for a living, he has never been arrested in his entire life,” Abel’s son Eduardo told reporters. “He just goes to work and he comes back to his family. He is loving, he is caring, he is responsible, he is someone to look up to, and he is an honest man and he should not have been arrested. I just want to ask the government to please look into who he is so they can do what’s right.
Sign the petition to demand a fair day in court for Abel. Thank you for taking action to support the Orozco family and defend due process.
Contexto:
Abel Orozco regresaba a casa después de comprar tamales para su familia el 26 de enero cuando agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de Estados Unidos (ICE/ La Migra) lo detuvieron en la calle en Lyons, Illinois, sin orden judicial.
Durante más de dos meses, ICE ha mantenido a Abel encerrado en un centro de detención en Indiana y le ha negado la oportunidad de ver a un juez. "Hemos estado viviendo una crisis", declaró su esposa, Yolanda Orozco, a la prensa el mes pasado.
Cuando ICE secuestró a Abel, no solo le arrebataron a una familia su devoto padre y abuelo, sino que también cerraron el negocio de jardinería familiar, que tenía 20 años y que prestaba servicios a comunidades de los suburbios de Chicago y brindaba apoyo financiero a otras 10 familias. El negocio era la única fuente de ingresos de la familia Orozco para pagar las crecientes facturas médicas mientras Yolanda lucha contra el cáncer.
Dile a ICE que le dé a Abel su día en la corte
El gobierno de Trump intenta deportar a Abel porque, hace más de 20 años, realizó un breve viaje a México para ver a su padre tras sufrir un derrame cerebral y recibir una orden de deportación acelerada en la frontera. Desde entonces, su hermano y su sobrino en México han sido secuestrados y desaparecidos, y ahora teme por su seguridad si se ve obligado a regresar. Además de este breve viaje para cuidar de su padre, Abel ha vivido en Illinois durante casi 30 años y ha criado a tres hijos ciudadanos estadounidenses. También es un esposo dedicado a su esposa Yolanda, a quien recientemente le diagnosticaron cáncer de mama, y un abuelo cariñoso de tres hijos, y otro nacerá este verano. Aunque Abel tiene una vía viable para obtener estatus migratorio, nunca ha tenido la oportunidad de presentar su caso ante un juez de inmigración debido a su orden de deportación de hace décadas.
Abel necesita la oportunidad de ver a un juez y solicitar un estatus legal permanente, y, lo que es igual de importante, explicar el daño que su familia y su comunidad en Illinois sufrirían si se viera obligado a abandonar Estados Unidos permanentemente.
ICE tiene la autoridad para otorgarle a Abel un día en el tribunal mediante la emisión de un documento de acusación llamado Notificación de Comparecencia, que le daría la oportunidad de presentar su caso ante un juez y solicitar un estatus legal permanente.
"Mi padre lleva aquí más de 27 años, tiene su propia empresa, se gana la vida talando árboles y nunca ha sido arrestado en toda su vida", declaró Eduardo, el hijo de Abel, a la prensa. "Simplemente va a trabajar y regresa con su familia. Es cariñoso, atento, responsable, alguien a quien admirar, un hombre honesto y no debería haber sido arrestado. Solo quiero pedirle al gobierno que sepan quien es el, para que puedan hacer lo correcto".
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