Audio Transcript: I want people to understand that when you put someone in attention, you’re not only detaining one person. You’re hurt in an entire family. I have not committed a crime, but I’ve been locked away from my wife and daughter for over five months already, and it feels like I can delock much longer.
My wife and daughter are US citizens. They’re just two innocent girls who want me to come back home. How do I explain to my kids why her father has been gone for so long?
I don’t know how to explain it to her, because, honestly, I don’t understand it myself. My wife is trying to hold our entire life together without me. She has to work, pay all bills, and fight this legal bottle at the same time, and I’m 100 miles away, unable to help two people that I love the most.
I love this country. I don’t even hear for over 16 years. This is my home, and I don’t want to go anywhere.
I told my bone hearing would give me a fair chance to come home. The judge knew that I had no criminal record, I didn’t pay socks since my wife and daughter are American citizens. I have home work and entire life here.
But I would still deny bond and call the high fly risk. This is one of the hardest things for me to understand. When you apply for adjustment of status, like I did, you’re not planning to hide from government.
You’re actually doing the exact opposite. I wasn’t heightened then, and I had no reason to hide now. How can I be a high fly risk when everything I had to wait for is right here?
In Louisiana, she was, like, almost impossible for people in the tension to be given a real chance to go home. I want people to know that what immigration detention looks like behind the statistics. It looks like my family, my family has done nothing wrong, but they are suffering every day because I’m not there.
All we want to be together again.
