A 16-year-old who was not too long ago launched from a hospital amid an ongoing most cancers battle is in search of her father’s launch after he was detained by immigration brokers.
Ofelia Torres, who has been battling Stage 4 most cancers for almost a 12 months, says her father was taken into federal custody simply days after she was launched from a Chicago hospital.
Torres was joined by different group members on Tuesday, calling for her father’s launch from custody.
“My dad, like many different fathers, is a hard-working one who wakes up early within the morning and goes to work with out criticism,” she stated.
Ruben Torres was taken into ICE custody at a House Depot retailer in Niles in latest days, in keeping with his lawyer.
“Ruben is a Mexican citizen who’s lived in the US since 2003, labored for a similar employer as a painter for 20 years,” lawyer Kalman Resnick stated.
Kalman stated his consumer is being detained on the federal ICE processing facility in Broadview. Resnick says he’ll go to federal courtroom aiming to get his consumer launched from detention later this week.
“He has a completely impeccable document in the US, and we consider that we will display to an immigration decide that he’s entitled to remain in the US along with his household and obtain what’s known as ‘cancellation of removing,’ which is able to give him a pathway to lawful everlasting residence and finally citizenship,” he stated.
Chicago Ald. Matt Martin is amongst these calling for Torres’ launch.
“That is simply nothing in need of cruelty, pure, easy, engineered cruelty,” he stated. “What’s taking place to Ophelia’s household is what’s taking place to so many different households throughout our metropolis and past.”
Ophelia stated that she hopes that federal brokers will deal with immigrants like her father with “love and respect” as she known as for his launch.
“I’m making this video to unfold consciousness and remind the general public that immigrants are people with households and should be handled with love and respect, identical to anybody else,” she stated.
