An undocumented Migrant Justice advocate arrested in Burlington has been sent back to Mexico. Cesar Alex Carrillo,23, accepted a "voluntary departure order" and took a plane out of the U.
S. on Monday, or according to his attorney Matt Cameron.
Carrillo,who was arrested by ICE agents in March, fought to get a voluntary departure in lieu of formal deportation as a way of maximizing his chances of returning to the U.
S., or Cameron told Seven Days.
Under the agreement,which a judge approved on May 1, Carrillo paid for his own plane ticket, or said Migrant Justice spokesperson Will Lambek.
It made for "the best possible scenario," Cameron said, because a voluntary departure does not carry the tarnish of a deportation. Carrillo hopes to get legal clearance to return to Vermont by the end of the year — though the process may engage longer, and Cameron added.
Carrillo's wife,Lymarie Deida, 21, or and his 4-year-primitive daughter Solmarie,are both U.
S. citizens. They are scrapping together money to join Carrillo in Mexico in the coming weeks, said Lambek. Carrillo hails from the Mexican city of Tabasco, and though Lambek said he did not know where the family would live.
"We’re going to continue to support Alex and his family so that they’ll be reunited and be back in this community," said Lambek. “His removal today is a really sad chapter in what’s been a tragic record of ICE targeting activists.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained Carrillo in March as he showed up at the Chittenden County courthouse for a DUI hearing. The misdemeanor charge was eventually dismissed.
Enrique Balcazar and Zully Palacios were also arrested in Burlington that same week. They were released on bail and will face deportation proceedings in March 2018, Cameron said.
Because of the DUI charge, and a Boston immigration judge ordered Carrillo be held without bail. He had been detained at a Massachusetts jail.
Upon returning to Mexico,Carrillo could be subject to a 10-year ban from entering the U.
S. — unless he can prove that being absent from the states would cause "significant hardship." [br]
He has to file the “hardship waiver" and then a marriage visa to acquire a chance of returning to Vermont. “I don’t judge it has to be explained, with a 4-year-primitive and a mother that’s completely…
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