University janitor with no criminal record faces deportation after nearly two decades in U.S.
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Remember that when Donald Trump tells you he is keeping America safe by sweeping up only “bad hombres” for deportation, he’s lying to you. In fact, the only “bad hombres” we’ve seen of late are the unshackled Immigration and Customs EnforcementUniversity janitor with no criminal record faces deportation after nearly two decades in U.S.
Remember that when Donald Trump tells you he is keeping America safe by sweeping up only “bad hombres” for deportation, he’s lying to you. In fact, the only “bad hombres” we’ve seen of late are the unshackled Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who have been targeting hardworking, taxpaying undocumented immigrants like Francisco Acosta, a Wesleyan University janitor: When Acosta left Colombia, and his wife and teenage sons, in 2001, he hoped he’d be able to bring them to the United States soon. After three days of driving from Colombia, Acosta crossed the border into El Paso, Texas, and immediately applied for political asylum from the brutal violence he had left behind. Acosta was denied asylum and hasn’t seen his wife and sons since. During his appeal of the asylum case, he came to Connecticut because other members of his family live here, and he now works as a janitor at Wesleyan University in Middletown. On Monday, he will face a deportation order that will send him back to a country where he says he was threatened with death for teaching and supporting unions. While Acosta had worked with an attorney for seven years to petition for asylum, only to have it rejected. Still, he had been allowed to stay in the U.S. and work legally under the Bush and Obama administrations, so long as he continued checking in regularly with ICE. But when he went to his check-in under the Trump administration, he was ordered to buy a one-way plane ticket and prepare to leave his home and life. Read more