To: Harlingen Immigration Court Judges, The Ohio State House, The Ohio State Senate, Governor Mike DeWine, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Harlingen Immigration Judge: Release my husband
I'm asking for my husband to be released from detention because of a mistake his adult half brother made on his behalf. My husband was a minor at the time and shouldn't be held accountable for an adults mistake.
Why is this important?
My husband Rovin Adonay Pineda-Tabora A200-816-190 came to the US in 2010 as an unaccompanied minor. He was released to his half brother in Ohio who didn't really care what happened to him. He wouldn't allow him to attend school or anything. He made him work for him. The money my husband made he ended up having to pay rent to his brother so he was left with little money for anything else. My husband was supposed to go to a court hearing in Harlingen, Texas but knew nothing of the court date. He then recieved an order of deportation in absentia because he didn't go in March 2011. I know all of this is true because I have been involved with this family since 2007. I filed the I-130, Petition for Family Relative in 2016. It was approved and sent to the Visa processing center. We paid the fees for the Visa center and was advised by the lawyer that we had at the time to put everything on hold and never heard from him again. We learned of my husband's deportation order when my husband was pulled over for a minor traffic stop (his diesel truck was smoking a little, like diesels do) and the Englewood Police Officer called his ICE buddy and he then placed my husband under arrest. My husband has never even had a ticket in his life. The officer also racially profiled my son who was born here. We did file for a motion to reopen his immigration case and it's been almost 3 months and we have heard nothing. He has been detained the whole time. I am asking you to sign my petition because my husband shouldn't be held accountable for missing court when he was only a child in the care of his brother who refused to help him. He shouldn't be held accountable for a mistake that an adult made.