Post by Logan on Feb 4, 2016 2:31:44 GMT -6
Durham commission urges end of ICE raids following arrest of Honduran teen
DURHAM -- The Durham Human Relations Commission has asked federal immigration officials to stop deporting young people from the city after a high school student was arrested outside his parents’ home by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents as he left for school last Thursday morning.
Wildin David Guillen Acosta, an 18-year-old senior at Riverside High School, was arrested after an immigration judge in Charlotte ordered his removal from the country last year. Federal officers had stopped Acosta at the Texas border in 2014 after he had fled his native Honduras, and he was ordered deported after failing to show up for an immigration hearing, according to his mother, Dilsia Acosta.
Dilsia Acosta relied on an interpreter Tuesday night when she asked commission members for help keeping her son from being sent back to Honduras.
“He is such a special son and exemplary in everything that he does,” Dilsia Acosta said. “And I know that my son is going to be able to stay here with the help of God. My son has no problems. He has no record and no addictions. He’s a good person.”
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article58256943.html
DURHAM -- The Durham Human Relations Commission has asked federal immigration officials to stop deporting young people from the city after a high school student was arrested outside his parents’ home by U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents as he left for school last Thursday morning.
Wildin David Guillen Acosta, an 18-year-old senior at Riverside High School, was arrested after an immigration judge in Charlotte ordered his removal from the country last year. Federal officers had stopped Acosta at the Texas border in 2014 after he had fled his native Honduras, and he was ordered deported after failing to show up for an immigration hearing, according to his mother, Dilsia Acosta.
Dilsia Acosta relied on an interpreter Tuesday night when she asked commission members for help keeping her son from being sent back to Honduras.
“He is such a special son and exemplary in everything that he does,” Dilsia Acosta said. “And I know that my son is going to be able to stay here with the help of God. My son has no problems. He has no record and no addictions. He’s a good person.”
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article58256943.html