In the last few hours, news has been announced inthe case of the Cuban family that was deported to Cuba, because last Friday a letter arrived from Immigration in the name of Guillermo Picos, the father of the family, summoning them for an interview to review their case.
“Now last Friday, April 12, this envelope arrives, normal, which is the way Immigration does things, with the stamp on it, and this envelope has a postage stamp of April 8. On April 8, Guillermo had been in Cuba for 15 or 16 days,” said the family's lawyer, Grisel Ybarra, in recent statements toTelemundo 51.
The disconcerting thing is that Guillermo Picos had been deported along with his wife and son to Cuba since March 28, which is a new indication that they were deported by mistake., as Ybarra insists.
The letter in question indicates that Guillermo and his wife BelkysThey must appear at the same office from which they had been deported for an interview to review their case.
The notice asks that you go to your lawyer at the meeting and clarifies that you do not have to bring your minor child to the meeting.
Ybarra, who from the beginning has been dismayed by the family's deportation and trusts that it was a mistake that can be corrected, nowis looking for how to represent its clients in a hearing scheduled for this coming April 18.
“I am against illegal immigration, but the moment you let them in you baptize them with constitutional rights that you have to respect”, says the lawyer.
Ybarra continues to advocate for his clients from Miami and Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar has joined the efforts.
The aforementioned source specified that the office of the Cuban-American congresswoman in Washington has established contact with the office of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the case.
Guillermo Picos, his wife and their 14-year-old son were returned to Cuba after having lived for more than three years in North Carolina and despite having I-220A documentation.They had arrived in the United States through Arizona in November 2022.
However, their asylum request was not granted and they were granted Notices to Appear with a first hearing scheduled in the Immigration Court in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, on February 16, 2023. The bad luck is that ICE He scheduled an interview for the family on the same day of his court hearing, that is, for February 16 of last year.
The family opted to attend the ICE interview first but arrived two hours late to court, which determined that they were deported in absentia, as previously revealed.Telemundo 51.
Grisel Ybarra filed a Motion to Reopen before the Immigration Judge, arguing the error in the scheduling of the interview. However, the motion was denied, leading to a pending appeal before the Board of Immigration Appeals, a process that was ongoing at the time they were deported.
On March 18 of this year they received a notification to appear before ICE on Wednesday the 27th, the day on which - without prior notice - they were put on a flight to Miami by a deportation officer. They spent the night in a hotel guarded by an Immigration agent and were forced to board the plane that on March 28 deported 61 Cubans to the island, including them, on the third flight of its type so far this year.
At no time since they appeared before ICE on March 27 were they allowed to communicate with their attorney.
In North Carolina, Guillermo Picos worked as an UBER driver and his wife worked at a remittance company, while the teenager, Denis, was finishing eighth grade.
In interview withMartí News, The family said they are traumatized due to the difficult experience they are going through., since they already had their lives largely established in United States territory. Denis Pico asked President Joe Biden that he just wants to return and be able to continue studying.
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