{"id":5084325,"date":"2019-11-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/yale-student-fighting-to-keep-ailing-mother-from-deportation\/"},"modified":"2019-11-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T05:00:00","slug":"yale-student-fighting-to-keep-ailing-mother-from-deportation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2019\/11\/13\/yale-student-fighting-to-keep-ailing-mother-from-deportation\/","title":{"rendered":"Yale student fighting to keep ailing mother from deportation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>UPDATE<\/strong> 11\/28\/19: Tania Romero has been released by ICE, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsolnews.com\/madre-con-cancer-liberada-por-ice-se-reune-con-su-hijo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> filed by El Sol.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a taped message, Romero thanked God and the people who supported her and her family while in custody of immigration officials.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was released last Friday, according to El Sol. Her deportation case is still pending.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">November 12, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a Yale Ph.D. student continues to fight to prevent his mother, Tania Romero from being deported to Honduras, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have stepped up their efforts to do just that.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cristian Padilla Romero, Yale class of \u201924, said he received a call shortly after midnight Monday from one of his mother\u2019s fellow detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center in southern Georgia, according to an article in the Yale Daily News.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cRelease My Mother\u201d: A Yale Student Fights to Halt Deportation of His Mother with Stage IV Cancer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OjuTU6OnMuo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=%23DemocracyNow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DemocracyNow<\/a><br \/>\u201cRelease My Mother\u201d: A Yale Student Fights to <br \/>Halt Deportation of His Mother with Stage IV Cancer <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with the News, Padilla Romero said that ICE had \u201cforcibly removed\u201d his mother from the center during the night. ICE officials allegedly told Romero she was receiving a phone call, Padilla Romero told the News. Once in another room, she was handcuffed and moved to an undisclosed location. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Padilla Romero said he was able to speak with his mother via video chat Monday evening and that her arms were bruised following the removal from the detention center.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romero is a stage 4 cancer survivor and her health has declined since being in detention, and she has been diagnosed with a severe B12 vitamin deficiency.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cICE\u2019s continuously willful and capricious actions are putting my mom\u2019s life in danger,\u201d Padilla Romero told the News. \u201cThis unmistakably amounts to torture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the News article, Irwin County Detention Center personnel told Padilla Romero early Monday that although his mother was removed, they could not disclose her status or whereabouts, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noemi Puntier, the attorney representing the family, went to the immigration court in Atlanta on Monday, but it was closed due to Veterans<br \/> Day, according to the News article.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Padilla Romero\u2019s family is from Honduras, but he grew up in Atlanta. His mother, who is undocumented, was pulled over for a traffic violation in Georgia in August. She was arrested and placed in ICE detention, according to a wnpr.org <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnpr.org\/post\/its-meant-so-much-one-yale-student-daca-status\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have an appeal pending,\u201d he told WNPR. \u201cI have written and verbal confirmation from the Honduran Consulate and the embassy that they do not have her travel documents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Padilla Romero learned late Monday that the lack of those documents prevented ICE from putting his mother on a plane back to Honduras.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview with the News, Angelina Williams, consul of the Honduran consulate in Atlanta, said, \u201cThe Honduran government is asking ICE (to allow Romero to stay) in the U.S. for the years she needs to be treated. The hospital where she received treatment in Georgia has issued a letter that she needs follow-up treatment. She needs four more years in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Padilla Romero told WNPR that when he was growing up, his mother worked up to three jobs to support her children.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following his mother\u2019s arrest, Padilla Romero said he considered not returning to Yale to continue his Ph.D. studies. \u201cIt\u2019s very difficult,\u201d he told WNPR. \u201cI mean, even starting this semester was a decision that took a lot of deliberation on my part. I wanted to be at home. I finally decided to come and continue the semester and see what I could do from here. And I think I\u2019ve been doing a decent job of that up until last week and this week where it\u2019s like I\u2019ve been on high alert 24\/7 because of the situation she\u2019s in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: wnpr.org, Yale Daily News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cICE\u2019s continuously willful and capricious actions are putting my mom\u2019s life in danger.&#8221;<br \/>\nCristian Padilla 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