To: Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Immigration officials should not break up Rony's family
Rony Ramos-Carrasco, father of two United States citizens and a model community leader with no criminal history, is current sitting in detention at a correctional facility in Louisiana.
He meets multiple criteria that would indicate an exercise of prosecutorial discretion and should be released immediately so he can return to his family.
Congress is currently working on immigration reform, and Rony could likely qualify for legal status and eventually citizenship under the bill that passed the U.S. Senate. This is all the more reason for ICE to step in now and grant Rony deferred action until Congress can finish its job.
Why is this important?
Rony Ramos-Carrasco, father of two United States citizens and a model community leader with no criminal history, is current sitting in detention at a correctional facility in Louisiana. He desperately needs your help to get back home.
One of Rony's young children, five-year-old Amy, has had a complicated medical history and needs her father's presence here in the US to help with her medical expenses. But to make matters worse, Rony's partner Yohana recently had emergency surgery and has been unable to care for their children on her own. Yohana was able to get some help from a relative to complete tasks as simple as carrying her one-year-old son Jake, but her relative could only stay with her for so long. Yohana needs your help bringing Rony back home where he belongs.
Please sign this petition to get Rony out of detention -- he is counting on you.
According to policies set by President Obama, there are multiple reasons Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) should release Rony from detention – reasons the local ICE office has ignored. Not only is he the father of two United States citizens, but he's also the “primary caretaker of a person with a mental or physical disability.” Five-year-old Amy's medical history has been confirmed in a letter by her pediatrician, and now she's even been diagnosed with depression as a direct result of her father's detention.
But ICE has ignored these factors before, having deported Rony twice already. But Rony has been determined to not let his family suffer without him. He returned back to the US because little Amy was undergoing surgery and needed her father's support, both financially and emotionally. And as the sole breadwinner, Rony knows his family's entire wellbeing depends on him being in the US to work.
When Congress passes immigration reform, Rony may qualify for immigration status and eventually citizenship. This is all the more reason for ICE to step in now and release Rony until Congress can finish its job.