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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria and respective different authorities and section representatives gathered successful Downtown Fresno connected Friday to request the merchandise of a pistillate from Firebaugh who was detained by ICE and is present successful the California City Detention Center.
“Last week, Maria Caballero, a parent of four, who has lived successful Firebaugh, California, for decades and has nary transgression record, was detained by ICE portion attending her scheduled USCIS appointment to set her status," Soria said.
Soria says Maria came to the United States successful 2001 and was moving done the ineligible petition process to get documentation.
"She was doing everything right. She followed the rules, alternatively of receiving fairness, her assignment was abruptly interrupted by ICE agents, and she was taken distant successful handcuffs," said Soria. "This is simply a betrayal of trust; radical are being punished for doing precisely what they were told to do.”
Maria's household says they are successful nonstop connection with Maria's attorney, but there's been nary connection from Federal Immigration Officials.
In effect to Caballero's detainment, ICE stated successful part,
Maria Villanueva Caballero is an amerciable alien who has shown implicit disregard for national instrumentality by illegally entering the United States connected six abstracted occasions implicit the past 25 years. Despite being voluntarily removed 5 times, she has continued to interruption our nation’s migration laws, demonstrating a blatant disregard for the regularisation of law. She presently has nary ineligible presumption that allows her to stay successful the state and volition stay successful ICE custody pending migration proceedings.
The USCIS neglected to remark erstwhile asked astir Caballero's case.
Maria’s lad Omar shared an affectional missive connected behalf of his siblings.
“On the greeting of October 8th, my mother, Maria Caballero, was detained by ICE aft her scheduled interrogation for her accommodation of status," Omar said. "The quality shattered each 1 of america arsenic we each ran retired of schoolhouse and retired of enactment to beryllium unneurotic and to guarantee my Mom's safety. We are facing our biggest nightmare, the separation of our beloved family. To accidental that our ma is the instauration of our household is an understatement. She is genuinely the instauration of each and each 1 of our lives.”
State Senator Anna Caballero besides spoke, advocating for Caballero's merchandise on with others, including Congressman Adam Gray, Congressman Jim Costa, Kerman Mayor Maria Pacheco, and Huron Mayor Rey Leon.
"To the Department of Homeland Security, halt hiding down masks, teardrop gas, rubber bullets, and bureaucratic cruelty, merchandise Maria Caballero and each the women and men that are likewise situated due to the fact that we cognize determination are more," said State Senator Anna Caballero. "And to USCIS reappraisal and o.k. her accommodation petition without delay. You inactive person the powerfulness to bash what's right, and to each elected authoritative successful this state, if you judge successful justice, present is the clip to act."
State Senator Anna Caballero says Maria’s communicative mirrors that of galore others, including Leticia Nevarez Bayan, different Central Valley parent precocious detained by ICE.
Her lad Steven besides shared his grounds astatine Friday's property conference.
“My parent came present for the American dream, but I'm not truthful definite that the American imagination is for radical similar me," Steven said. "I can't adjacent enactment into words however hard it's been. The location is wholly different. I person a younger brother, he's 11 years old, and he's without a mom."
Steven says his ma has been successful the United States for 40 years, helium describes her arsenic kind, comic and caring.
According to Steven, adjacent successful the detention center, radical are already looking to her arsenic a motherly figure.
He and his siblings effort to speech to her erstwhile a time implicit the phone.
"I deliberation she's ever holding backmost tears; she tries to beryllium strong, but I deliberation she misses us," Steven said. "She is ever disquieted astir us."
State officials are asking for assemblage enactment by signing this petition that has already collected implicit 7,000 signatures.
Mayor of Firebaugh Freddy Valdez urges everyone to spot the person, not the paperwork, and says the assemblage volition not remainder until Maria Caballero is free.
