Enrique has lived in New Orleans since 2007, when he first traveled to the United States, and has helped reconstruction of the city after the devastating Hurricane Katrina. He has no criminal record and is a dedicated father. The only reason immigration picked him up during the neighborhood raid, is that he has one stop at the border from 6 years ago.

On Friday August 23rd, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a directive particularly concerned with the removal of immigrants who are parents or legal guardians of children. According to this directive, special consideration should be made in the placement, detention, and  deportation of immigrants as part of consideration for prosecutorial discretion.

Although he is not their biological father, Enrique is their sole provider and the only father role model they have known. Since his detention, his daughters have experienced emotional trauma, and since he was detained have had trouble at school. 

Please support Enrique and his family and send an e-mail to ICE in his support by signing below and sharing the petition.

To whom it may concern,

I am writing in support of Mr. Enrique Morales-Sosa (A#094-925-234) who has detained during an immigration operative in New Orleans, and is now in removal proceedings. Mr. Morales-Sosa was detained while him and his partner were driving to the store to buy school supplies for their two daughters, Rachel Vega and Yanelli Vega, who are 6 and 8 years old.

Mr. Morales-Sosa has lived in New Orleans since 2007, when he first traveled to the United States, and has helped reconstruction of the city after the devastating Hurricane Katrina. He has no criminal record and is a dedicated father. The only reason immigration picked him up during the neighborhood raid, is that he has one stop at the border from 6 years ago.

On Friday August 23rd, Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a directive particularly concerned with the removal of immigrants who are parents or legal guardians of children. According to this directive, special consideration should be made in the placement, detention, and deportation of immigrants as part of consideration for prosecutorial discretion. Although he is not their biological father, Mr. Morales-Sosa is their sole provider and wage-earner, and the only role model they have known. Since his detention, his daughters have experiences emotional trauma, and since he was detained have had trouble at school.

Mr. Morales-Sosa has lived in the U.S. for over six years, he is the sole provider for two United States citizen children, whom he is raising with their mother; he has strong community ties, including support from the New Orleans Congress of Day LAborers and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. He also has support from the community, including myself.

I urge you to please consider using prosecutorial discretion in Mr. Morales-Sosa’s case, close his deportation case, and release him from immigration detention to be with his family.

Thank you,

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