New York, United States
Honduran immigrant Javier Castillo, a beneficiary of the Delayed Action for the Arrival of Children (DACA) program, never thought crossing a street with a red light would put him on the road to deportation.
For 15 months, this “dreamer”, his family and activists have been fighting to avoid being deported, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) insists on sending him back to his country where he left as a child.
December 14, 2019 Castillo He was on his way to his brother Jason’s birthday party in The Bronx, New York, when he was stopped by the police for crossing the street when the traffic light turned red.
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Despite the fact that New York was declared a sanctuary city in 2014, with the policy of not cooperating with immigration authorities unless wanted for a crime, Castillo was delivered ICE and since then he has been in detention centers in New York, New Jersey and Louisiana, according to The New Yorker magazine.
And although the city itself acknowledged in a letter that his arrest had been “a horrific mistake and a clear violation of local law,” even asking for his arrest. release ICE it has remained relentless in its intention to deport him, the magazine notes.
Deportation priority
The Castillo deportation was scheduled for last January, but according to the new rules of ICE
According to the letter obtained by the magazine, the city legal department has the letter in Manhattan acknowledge the ‘mistake’ on February 3
City officials acknowledge that even after it was discovered Castillo was transferred to the federal agency, a Department of Correction employee was suspended and later transferred to another unit.
Alma, the young man’s mother, who works as a secretary at the Metropolitan Hospital in Manhattan, came to the United States in 1997 under temporary protected status (TPS) and asked her relatives in 2002 to ask her old, to send. and 6 years old, who made the journey across the southern border.
Their sister Dariela joined them a few months later, while a fourth child stayed indoors Honduras