Advocates continue to fight to save an undocumented mother and son, arrested by ICE just one day apart from each other, from deportation to danger. High school student Diego Ismael Puma Macancela was swept up by federal immigration agents the same day of his prom, and one day after his mom Rosa’s arrest:
His cousin, Gaby Macancela, said a frightened Puma Macancela came to her Prospect Avenue apartment Wednesday night after his mother's arrest. The following morning, she said they cowered in fear in one of the bedrooms when they heard agents banging on the door of the apartment.
“Wake up, the police are here again," she said Puma Macancela told her. "They’re coming for me.”
She said her cousin eventually walked outside and was arrested.
“He’s not a criminal; he didn’t do anything bad to nobody," she said. "He was just going to school, working. He was trying to make his dreams come true for him, for his family, for us. I don’t know why. He’s just a kid.”
Both Diego and Rosa fled to the U.S/Mexico border in 2014, after escaping gang violence in their native Ecuador. Once in the U.S. they applied for asylum, and according to AM New York, Diego had been issued a work permit and driver’s license. He worked two part-time jobs at fast food restaurants, and was scheduled to graduate this summer in hopes of training to be a mechanic.
But instead, federal immigration officials decided Diego and Rosa—who according to their family members have no criminal records here in the U.S. or in Ecuador—are priorities for deportation. Today, both are sitting in a Louisiana detention facility and waiting to hear about their fates.
Because federal immigration officials have not yet ruled on their latest appeal, Diego and Rosa may not be put on the next ICE flight to Ecuador—scheduled every Friday—but advocates in their community are remaining cautious. At the very least, they hope he would be allowed to remain in the country long enough to get his diploma.
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