The mother and father of Paula Hincapie-Rendon will probably be deported to Colombia early subsequent week, the couple’s lawyer stated Friday.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers arrested Betty Rendon and Carlos Hincapie on May eight after they pulled over their daughter a block away from their household house in Englewood.
The company launched Hincapie-Rendon later that afternoon as a result of she is protected against deportation beneath the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. ICE despatched her mother and father to an ICE facility in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, and transferred them to the Pulaski County Jail in Ullin, Illinois, late Monday evening.
On Thursday, Diana Rashid, an lawyer with the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago, filed keep of removing requests for each Rendon and Hincapie. She included 65 letters of help from neighborhood organizations and petitions, signed by greater than 15,000 folks, calling for the couple to stay within the nation.
ICE wasn’t .
“I got a call earlier this afternoon from the supervising officer at the ICE field office [in the Loop] to let us know that the stay was denied,” she stated. “When I asked him why, he said that there were ‘insufficient reasons warranting a stay.’ I asked him to elaborate, and all he said was, ‘I don’t know what to tell you.’”
Rendon and Hincapie are scheduled to be bused to an ICE detention middle in Oakdale, Louisiana, on Tuesday and can then be placed on the subsequent chartered flight to Colombia, based on Rashid.
ICE didn’t reply to requests for remark.
The household fled Colombia’s civil battle in 2004 after guerrilla rebels threatened to kill Rendon for not permitting them to recruit college students of a faculty the place she was a principal. They got here into the United States with vacationer visas and later utilized for asylum, however their purposes have been denied in 2009.
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Since then, Rendon turned a pupil minister on the Emaus Evangelical Lutheran Church in Racine, Wisconsin, and was set to start her doctorate on the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in June. Hincapie held regular work in development and grew near his five-year-old granddaughter, Layla.
Both maintained spotless legal information throughout their 15 years within the United States.
Rashid stated she hasn’t been capable of communicate with Rendon or Hincapie since her telephone name with ICE on Friday. She’s uncertain if the couple is aware of they are going to be deported subsequent week.
“It’s possible they don’t find out until Tuesday when they’re put on a bus to Louisiana,” she stated.
Rendon and Hincapie’s case is indicative of the sharp rise in ICE arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants with clear information.
Figures launched by ICE in March present the company arrested 34,546 folks between October and December 2018. More than a 3rd of these immigrants had no legal document, the very best month-to-month determine since ICE began categorizing arrests in 2012, as reported by USA TODAY.
As of Monday, ICE had greater than 52,000 immigrants in its custody, BuzzFeed News reported.
“We had our hopes up that ICE would do the right thing in this one case,” Rashid stated. “We’re incredibly disappointed by the agency’s utter disregard for family unity.”
Paula Hincapie-Rendon is protected against deportation by her DACA standing — however this system doesn’t enable her to go away the nation, that means she will be unable to go to her mother and father as soon as they’re deported.
Rashid referred to as Paula with the unhealthy information quickly after getting off the telephone with ICE.
“Paula is very upset. Right now, she’s planning on how to get her family’s baggage ready,” she stated.
Carlos Ballesteros is a corps member in Report for America, a not-for-profit journalism program that goals to bolster Sun-Times’ protection of Chicago’s South and West sides.