Pismo's manager held by ICE pleads for letters of support

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Fresno edifice manager detained by ICE is asking for the community’s help.

Sam "Psalm" Behpoor is locked successful the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility successful Bakersfield.

Now, helium says his destiny is successful the community’s hands.

“This is maine asking the assemblage and begging and pleading with everybody,” Behpoor said.

ICE detained him erstwhile helium showed up for an migration interrogation connected June 23rd.

“I was shocked,” Behpoor’s life-long person Kash Amin said. “I hadn’t talked to him for a fewer months, and that is simply a precise unfortunate mode to get an update astir wherever your friend’s been since you past spoke.”

Behpoor immigrated to the United States erstwhile helium was 3 years aged and past got his greenish paper astatine 13 years old.

Amin met him successful the 7th grade.

“Yeah, determination were immoderate unfortunate things that happened, but he's been a productive subordinate of society. Send him home,” Amin said.

Behpoor served clip successful situation for non-aggravated burglary successful 2004.

He was detained by ICE astatine the time, but they yet released him.

“I person changed and I’m not that idiosyncratic anymore, and I’ve evolved into thing overmuch different,” Behpoor said.

Behpoor has managed Pismo’s Coastal Grill successful Fresno for 10 years, and has a woman and a 3-year-old son.

He says if helium is going to marque it backmost to them, helium needs the community’s support.

“He received a missive [this week] that fundamentally said, ‘For your upcoming hearing… if you privation to person letters of support, past person them e-mailed here.”

Behpoor says letters of enactment would marque a immense quality successful his case.

“It could marque oregon interruption my state – 100%,” Behpoor said.

Reporters reached retired to ICE to find retired wherefore it detained Behpoor successful the archetypal place, but did not perceive back.

Behpoor says he’s not definite erstwhile the proceeding volition happen; helium could get the telephone astatine immoderate time.

He asks anyone funny successful penning a missive to email it to LettersForPsalm@gmail.com.

People tin besides donate to his family's GoFundMe here.