ICE calls Jesus a convicted felon, immigration fugitive, and someone who fits their enforcement priorities, but the facts of Jesus’s case show how misguided and out of control ICE’s enforcement practices are.

Jesus’s family and community are fighting back. Jesus has four children who live in this country, two who have received DACA and one who is a U.S. citizen. He is an active member of St. Phillip the Apostle parish in Green Bay. F. Jesus is  also a dairy worker and often works more than twelve hours a day in Wisconsin’s most important industry. His wife suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and she depends on him for her medical care and financial support.

Jesus’s daughter Marisa graduated college last May thanks to her and her father’s hard work. Now Marisa works for Notre Dame Academy in Green Bay, and she is a strong member and organizer with Voces de la Frontera. Last year she was the Green Bay field director in the campaign for comprehensive immigration reform.  Marisa’s family should not be separated!

Jesus and his family have lived in the United States since entering legally with visas in 1995. In 1997, he and his family returned to Mexico for one month so that they could be with family when Jesus’s brother-in-law died.  When they returned to the United States, immigration officials stopped them at the border and removed Jesus through a process called expedited removal, which subjects people to the same immigration consequences of a deportation without giving them the right to go before an Immigration Judge.

In 2012 Jesus was convicted of a crime after leaving the scene of a car accident, but he has complied with all the court’s conditions connected to his traffic accident case. Because the judge did not consider him a danger to society, he has never been to jail for this charge, and he has no other criminal history.