A 17-Month Detention, Now an Uncertain Future
It's kind of easy to say just send him back," she says. "But there's a domino effect. This affects his wife, his kids, his family, his friends, his co-workers. I wish they would be open-minded ... and really understand what they're doing to human beings."
Davalos' court hearing isn't scheduled until 2014. He'll have to prove his three U.S.-born children will suffer an extreme and exceptionally unusual hardship if he's deported. It's a very high bar, and Salvatierra knows it.
She already is framing her argument: "He's obviously a good father, a good provider, a good husband," she says, "and he has demonstrated he's a worthy individual to remain in the United States."
"I feel like I have to be the perfect person," he says.
"I was looking for a better life, that's why I came," he says. "It's not because I wanted to do something bad to this country."
He returned to his job cleaning pools.
Click on the link to view the entire article and comments:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/04/10/us/AP-US-Immigration-Limbo-Davalos.html?scp=3&sq=illegal%20immigration&st=nyt
by Amy D
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment