Organized Communities Against Deportation (OCAD) shares:
Abel Orozco was on his way home from buying tamales for his family on January 26 when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers stopped him on the street in Lyons, Illinois, and detained him without a warrant.
For more than two months since then, ICE has kept Abel locked in a detention center in Indiana and denied him an opportunity to see a judge. “We have been living in a crisis,” his wife Yolanda Orozco told reporters last month.
When ICE abducted Abel, they not only robbed a family of their devoted father and grandfather, but also shuttered the family’s 20-year-old landscaping business that served communities throughout Chicago’s suburbs and provided financial support to 10 other families. The business was the Orozco family’s sole source of income to pay mounting medical bills as Yolanda fights cancer.
The Provincial Council of the Clerics of St. Viator, Province of Chicago, signed OCAD’s statement demanding due process in the legal system for Abel Orozco.
Learn the context of this unjust situation and sign the petition at OCAD’s website (available in English and Spanish).